CFRD initiates shipment of tea machinery for Nepal Tea Project

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Mar. 13: China Foundation for Rural Development (CFRD) has initiated the shipment of tea machinery for Nepal tea project.

The tea machinery launching ceremony of the Nepal Tea Project of the CFRD was held in Leshan, Chengdu, Sichuan Dengyao Machinery Equipment Co. Ltd. on Tuesday, March 12.

Chen Yingli, Deputy Director of Leshan Economic Cooperation and Foreign Affairs Bureau, Chaman Singh Budhathoki Magar, Deputy Consul of the Consulate General of Nepal in Chengdu, Secretary of the Party Branch and General Manager of Sichuan Dengyao Machinery Equipment Co. Ltd  Li Dengyao and Zou Zhiqiang, Director of the Nepal Office of the China Foundation for Rural Development, attended the launching ceremony, according to a press note by the CFRD.

At the ceremony, Zou Zhiqiang, Director of the Nepal Office of the China Rural Development Foundation, introduced the China Rural Development Foundation and the Nepal Tea Project to the Chinese and foreign guests.

The Consulate General of Nepal in Chengdu and Sichuan Dengyao Machinery Equipment Co. Ltd. attended the tea machinery launching ceremony to express their sincere gratitude, thanking them for their recognition and support of the tea support project into Nepal, and deepening the Nepalese Consulate General not only to further understand Leshan, a beautiful tourist city, but also to deepen the understanding of Leshan as a Chinese tea industry base, to bring more knowledge of China's tea industry to Nepal, and at the same time to understand the achievements of China's rural revitalization, so as to better support the China Foundation for Rural Development Project in Nepal, read the press note.

In his speech, Ma Jia, Deputy Consul General of Nepal in Chengdu, first thanked the China Foundation for Rural Development for its poverty alleviation efforts in Nepal in the past 9 years, and brought China's fruitful tea processing technology and machinery to Nepal to help the Nepalese people improve the tea production conditions and help the Nepalese people seek opportunities for the development of the tea industry. We are very excited, we also hope to see the tea farmers in Nepal can work so happily in Nepal, so we also hope that the China Foundation for Rural Development will also strengthen the training of Nepalese tea farmers, do not waste the machines that have been transported hard today, and can help Nepalese tea farmers to be blessed, and our consulate should report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal to support the early entry of these machines into Nepal.

Chen Yingli, Deputy Director of Leshan Economic Cooperation and Foreign Affairs Bureau, wished the China Foundation for Rural Development for the smooth shipment of tea machinery. Tea and related agricultural machinery of Sichuan Dengyao Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. has gone to Laos and neighboring Southeast Asian countries, welcomed by local enterprises as early as the beginning of 2000 and this is the first time to enter Nepal, and hope to see Nepal’s Tea Project of China Foundation for Rural Development can benefit the local people. Leshan City is very honored to participate in the Belt and Road project support.

Following it, all the participants watched the promotional video of the Nepal Office of the China Foundation for Rural Development and the promotional video of the Leshan Economic Cooperation Bureau, and under the leadership of Li Dengyao, Branch Secretary and General Manager of Sichuan Dengyao Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd., they walked into the workshop, visited the tea machinery that was about to be sent to Nepal, and cut the ribbon for the delivery ceremony.

Nepal Tea Project

Nepalese organic tea is very popular in the world, but due to the lack of good technical support for tea planting and tea processing, tea farmers have a very difficult life and rely only on tea picking to make a living. The Nepal Tea Project is one of the 2023 Overseas Rural Revitalization Innovation Projects of the China Foundation for Rural Development, which aims to help Nepal’s tea processing and tea products improvement by supporting China's advanced tea processing equipment into Nepal tea production, and promote the improvement of tea quality through technical intervention, so as to achieve the purpose of increasing the income of tea farmers. After the completion of the project, it will support the tea processing of nearly 3 million tea trees planted by more than 160 tea farmers in Kimtang Village, of Nuwakot District in Nepal, and improve the quality of tea products in the region.