On June 20, in order to promote the international construction of Tea Cultivation and Tea Processing major of GVTC, Dr. Nguyen Thi Hong Lam, Deputy Director of the Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute of Vietnam, was invited by the School of Agricultural Engineering of GVTC to deliver a tea culture webinar entitled “Characteristic of Ancient Shan Tea in Vietnam, Conservation and Development”. The Dean Chen Enhai attended the webinar together with the teachers and students from the School of Agricultural Engineering.
Dr. Thi Hong Lam has a PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, with a focus on indigenous tea culture and farming practices in Vietnam. She has published numerous articles on genetic diversity of ancient tea trees, agricultural characteristics and farming traditions, and breeding of ancient Shan tea. This webinar mainly introduced a comprehensive overview of the development of ancient tea trees in Vietnam from five aspects, including the history of tea in Vietnam, domestic and overseas research on ancient Shan tea in Vietnam, biological traits of upland ancient Shan tea, biotechnology applied to assess genetic diversity and classification of upland ancient Shan tea, and conservation and development of ancient Shan tea planting areas in Vietnam.
The webinar was highly academic. Both the teachers and students who participated in the webinar expressed that the webinar had broadened their international vision of the tea industry and also stimulated their interest in the international research of ancient tea trees. The webinar brought a promotion in the exchange of tea culture between GVTC and universities in ASEAN countries and achieved a perfectly desired result.
Introduction of the lecturer
The theme of the webinar
Products made from ancient Shan tea
Group photo