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​Daba Mountain Agriculture

Daba Mountain - one of the purest places in China
Daba Mountain, Shaanxi, China
Experimental tea and agriculture on Daba ShanDaba Mountain, listed by the World Wildlife Fund as one of the world's 200 ecoregions, this is one of the purest places in Asia.


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Daba mountain is the most biologically rich area with one of the richest varieties of vegetation in all of China.  Nowhere can you find more different species, including more than 50 broad-leaved genera and a dozen or more coniferous genera that flourish naturally here. The area has endless diverse micro-climates, they say anything and everything grows on the Daba Mountains, you just need to know where to go find it.

Trees of the Daba Mountains include oak, pine, elm, birch, ash, walnut, maple as well as ancient trees like the dawn redwood and the gingko, one of the oldest trees species in the world.​ 

The valley area produces rice, winter wheat, bulk green tea, tobacco, cotton, millet, barley, and corn are also increasingly important crops, as is kaoliang (a variety of grain sorghum). On the higher ground, millet, oats, and buckwheat are common. Hemp, sesame, sugar beets, and rapeseed.

Deciduous forest ecoregion covers about 30% of Daba mountain. Daba mountains are very, very rich in selenium. What is grown here contains 20% more selenium than what is grown in similar growing areas.  There  are over 3,300-plus species of wild plants, 38 of them rare. The province has more than 800 species of medicinal plants of great economic value, including green tea, sea-buckthorn, gynostemma pentaphylla as well as very rare and sought after, high elevation green tea  Qinba Wu Hao.

Fruit tree's found in the Daba mountains are Asian pear, orange, mandarin, lemon, kiwi, apricot, plum, jujube, pomegranate, persimmon, fig, chestnut and filbert.

The local government  encourages sustainability, economic development and ecological protection . Local government has also ​ developed environmentally-friendly fruit products and promoted organic apple-growing, as well as establishing 19 research centers for the development of new greener technologies. The area is a large ecological circle: farmers grow grass in orchards to feed livestock, their manure used to generate organic fertilizer.
Daba Shan (Mountain)
Daba Shan (Mountain)
Qinba Wu Hao. Very high-elevation and one of the purest teas in all of China from Daba Mt.
Qinba Wuhao is one of the rarest teas to leave China. Picked at 2,200-2,300 meters elevation in Daba Mountain
Qinba Wu Hao, very rare green tea from the  highest elevations of Daba Shan
Qinba Wu Hao - the rare tea takes 38,000 hand-picked buds to make one pound. One worker, one full day.
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Beekeeping in Daba Mountain

Shennongjia Forestry District
Dawn Redwood
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Daba Mountains is a mountain range in Central China
A forest mushroom (near Muyu, Shennongjia, Daba Shan)
Most of Daba Shan is only hikeable. Few roads beyond this point
Few roads beyond this point on Daba Shan ( Daba Mountain)
Decaisnea insignis (at about 2,000 meters (6,600 ft)
Decaisnea insignis (at about 2,000 meters (6,600 ft) elevation, north of Muyu)

     

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