Youxi Oil Tea

Youxi Oil Tea

　　   Youxi Oil Tea is a specialty of Youxi County, Sanming City, Fujian Province. Youxi County has been designated as the "Hometown of Oil Tea in China" by the China Economic Forestry Association.

　　   Youxi is the largest oil tea-producing county in the province, with 235,000 mu of oil tea plantations. It was named the "Hometown of Oil Tea in China" in 2009. Since 2008, the county has been fully implementing an oil tea industry development plan, providing support for the cultivation of high-quality varieties, new plantings by farmers, and the transformation of low-yield plantations. It has also established oil tea professional cooperatives and nurtured deep-processing enterprises to accelerate the industrialization of the oil tea sector. By 2011, the total output value of oil tea in the county reached 250 million yuan. Currently, there are eight oil tea professional cooperatives, including Yikang and Yongfu. Relying on these cooperatives, local oil tea farmers have shifted from working individually to collaborating as a group. They now engage in unified sales and profit-sharing of processed tea seed oil, thereby increasing overall benefits.