Tea

Tea is considered one of the perennial presence very early in Lam Dong and is the largest of Vietnam.

Since 1927, the Dutch began to build Cau Dat Tea Department (Xuan Truong commune, Da Lat) scale clearing is 1,000 ha. In 1930, the Department of Land Bridge Tea Company was transferred to PIT (Plantation Indochinoise de The) of France. Of this tea from tea grown and the Lam Vien Plateau Di Linh - Bao Loc. Currently, the province has allocated 25.455ha tea area in Da Lat and Duc Trong, Lam Ha, Di Linh, Bao Lam and Bao Loc.
From 1995 onward, in Lam Dong tea varieties cultivated mainly planted hybrid tea varieties with high grain should not yield. Consecutive years, a revolution has changed the tea varieties on the quality of the tea gardens of Lam Dong. That is the new tea varieties: TB 14, LD 97, LDP.1, Kim Xuyen, Tu Do, Thuy Ngoc, O Long, ... 7.215ha planted, accounting for 28.6% of the total tea area is.
Currently, the province has 45 enterprises of tea processing and trading, private company Lam Dong Tea has seven processing plants and a joint venture with a capacity of 5500-7500 tonnes / year. Besides, 20 foreign investment companies processing 7000-8000 tonnes / year, equivalent to 35,000 to 40,000 tons of tea leaves. In addition, the province has over 70 famous tea, the average processing capacity of 1500 kg of fresh tea per day per establishment. Tea processing OTD mainly black tea and green tea is about 15%.

According to development plans of tea, 2010, will expand the area of Lam Dong province only to the 26,000 to 28,000 hectares, including high tea and high-quality tea products account for about 48% -50%, average yield Force 90 quintals per hectare and output from 211,500 to 252,000 tons of tea leaves per year. A growing number of new projects of high quality tea to be deployed in Da Lat, Di Linh, Bao Loc and Bao Lam scale 4000-5000 ha, and converted to around 6,500 hectares of tea seeds tea shoots. Vietnam Tea Association and both the countries you when to Bao Loc Bao Loc is also recognized "the capital of tea" in Vietnam because it is "the navel" of Lam Dong Tea. Many famous tea exist in several decades as: Cau Dat, Minh Rong, Do Huu Quoc Thai, Thien Huong, more recently, Tram Anh, Tam Chau, Haji, Fushen, ... with other tea products to consumers Popular at home and abroad.