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Otar Shamugia visited experimental tea plantation in the village of Kvemo Bakhvi, Ozurgeti Mnicipality
The Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, Mr. Otar Shamugia together with Mr. Giorgi Urushadze, the State Representative in the Guria region visited the tea plantation grown experimentally in the village of Kvemo Bakhvi, Ozurgeti municipality.
"Tea is a traditional crop culture in Georgia and has a development potential if we improve its quality. Therefore, we are implementing tea plantations rehabilitation program and have already rehabilitated more than 1,600 hectares of tea plantations within the program. We also provide support to the processing sector and met with the farmers in the village of Bakhvi, Guria region to discuss issues related to the additional types of support that sector needs for further development. We are ready to provide more support to farmers and help them in producing high-quality, competitive tea products," said Mr. Otar Shamugia.
It should be mentioned that Georgian tea farmers introduced modern technology for tea leaf production, which led to the flat-surface formation of a tea bush. Subsequently, the introduction of modern technology has significantly improved the complex mechanization process in tea cultivation; it also improved the quality of tea and expanded the tea picking surface area.
Davit Teneishvili is one of the first tea growers living in the village of Kvemo Bakhvi, who applied the aforementioned technology for the formation of a tea bush with a wide and flat top surface and cultivated tea plantations on a 5 ha of land area.
The Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture visited Davit Teneishvili's plantation, where he got familiar with the formation process of tea plants - from oval-shaped to flat-shaped ones. Mr. Shamugia attended the testing of new tea equipment as well, embracing Japanese, Chinese, Turkish and Georgian hand grinders, pickers, angle grinders, surface grinders etc.Â