Camellia oleifera industry in Xiangxi township

Xiangxi Township Party Committee and Government firmly grasped the opportunity of the state to support the development of Camellia oleifera industry, and established Township Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. to guide farmers to cultivate, transform and build new Camellia oleifera forests. Xiangxi Township manages an area of 654.38+0.000 mu of camellia oleifera, with an annual output of 220 tons, an annual output value of 654.38+065.438+0.32 million yuan and a per capita output value of 654.38+0.200 yuan. In order to make Camellia oleifera industry bigger and stronger, Xiangxi Township has made great efforts to tap the development potential of Camellia oleifera and expand its planting scale. It is planned that the planting area will reach 6.5438+0.5 million mu within three years, and a tea oil finishing plant will be established to develop the camellia oil industry into a pillar industry in Xiangxi Township.

Since 1999, oil tea 1000 mu has been planted in Xiangxi township every year, and now there is 1. 1000 mu of oil tea forest with an annual output of 220 tons. In order to accelerate the development of Camellia oleifera industry, Xiangxi Township Party Committee and Government formulated an implementation plan for Camellia oleifera industry development, and established a leading group for Camellia oleifera industry development with the secretary as the team leader and the township head as the deputy team leader. Xiangxi Township plans to establish a 65.438 million+mu seed breeding base and a 500-mu seed management demonstration area. The planting area of Camellia oleifera in Xiangxi Township will reach 25,000 mu, including 20,000 mu of high-yield forest base with an annual oil output of 65,438+10,000 tons and an output value of about 60 million yuan. Putian Camellia oleifera industry development site meeting was held in Xiangxi Township. Xiangxi Township Government invited experts from Fujian Provincial Forestry Department, Provincial Academy of Forestry and Putian Forestry Bureau to Xiangxi Township to carry out seed selection, listing, start-up and seed selection training of Longyan Tea Superior Tree, an excellent variety of camellia oleifera. According to the selection criteria, Xiangxi Township selected 1 10,000 excellent plants of camellia oleifera and longan tea, and finally determined 90 excellent plants. About 65,438+0,000 kilograms of excellent single-plant seeds were collected, which can be used to raise more than 2 million plants.

Camellia oleifera is a woody edible oil seed which is a specialty of China. Seeds are pressed for oil, and dead leaves of tea are high-quality fertilizers and chemical raw materials. Tea oil is clear in color, fragrant in taste, storable, high in unsaturated fatty acids, easy to be digested and absorbed by human body, and beneficial to human health. It is a first-class high-quality edible oil. With the improvement of people's living standards, people pay more and more attention to the quality of edible oil, and tea oil is more and more favored by people because of its obvious health care function, so the market of tea oil is very broad. The contradiction between supply and demand of tea oil is intensifying day by day, and the market price is rising. The price per kilogram of tea oil has surpassed that of 40 yuan. It has become an urgent need for the development of Camellia oleifera industry to improve the level of improved varieties, study the supporting technologies that can realize sustainable management, greatly improve the yield and quality of Camellia oleifera, increase the value of various by-products of Camellia oleifera and increase the economic benefits of Camellia oleifera.