Address:    Phu Ho - Phu Ninh dist – Phu Tho Province.
Tel:            84 0210 865 073
Fax:           84 0210 865 931
Email:        vienche@hn.vnn.vn

Tea Research Institute is the earliest founded Institute and has research works on the first-graded industrial plants in Vietnam. It was established in 1918 by the French and continued its research sincethen.

The Institute has over 200 hectares of breed garden and experimental garden with over 130 different tea breeds. This place stores the most giant gene budget of tea plants in Vietnam.

The Institute has function and task of the experimental scientific research and all-sized technical advance transfer of tea growing and processing, training cadres, technicians for the tea department in the country. Researching, applying some of other plants in the Northern Vietnam.

Tea Research Institute has different research subjects, 01 central experimental laboratory, 02 centers for experiment and advance transfer, 03 functional departments. Total staff are 414 persons: 2 professors, 10 doctors, 9 masters, 36 university cadres, 45 college cadres, 85 high-graded technical workers ...

Training technical scientific cadres for tea business production: annually, the Institute trains, guide apprentices, researchers of 300 students in Agriculture University, Polytechnic University, junior colleges and tea processing, agriculture college ... Training, encouraging  agricultural expansion for a lot of cadres, farmers in tea growing provinces, meeting all demands on operation, deploying technology science in tea development career and other plants in Northern mountainous provinces.

Selecting, crossing tea breeds:

Tea breeds selected to cross in the Institute has been changing basically the tea breed structure of the country. The Institute is managing original breed corporation of 118 ones, 02 experimental black tea processing workshops and 01 managing green tea processing workshop. Researching, collecting, supporting and universalizing  the technical process of advanced tea cultivation, intensive cultivation to make tea gardens gain high productivity of 15-15 tons/hectare, safe tea production and cultivation techniques and environment protection.

From more than 130 tea breeds, the Institute selected and crossed 03 national tea breeds: PH1 breed: the capacity of 20 tons/hectare (small size of 30 tons/hectare); TRI777 breed having high quality is suitable to high land; LDP1 breed has the capacity of 15 tons/hectare, good quality that can be applied in midland and low land. Regionalized breeds: tea breed of 1A, LDP2.

Yearly, the Institute supplies 15-20 million of beards of new tea breed with high quality in accordance with per condition of climate and land of each region for tea makers.