In this late Autumn, hundred of people are busy with picking up tea-oil fruits in hundred acres of tea-oil trees spread in hills of Ningjiaping Town Youxian County. These reaped fruits gradually were stack into small hills.
深秋时节，在攸县宁家坪镇，成百的人群在这百公顷油茶林中忙碌着采摘油茶，采摘的油茶逐渐堆成了一座座茶果小山。
Tea-oil tree is always vibrant throughout an entire year. They can live to almost two hundred years. The process of flower turning into fruit usually take a year. Its oil can be extracted and has a golden color and a unique fragrance. It is considered therapeutic in Chinese medicine, and it is one of best cooking oil.
油茶林枝叶常青。树龄最长可达二百年。它的鲜球从花到果，需周年孕育。它榨出的油汁，金黄透亮，芳香沁鼻；它是一味中药。它也是最好的烹饪油其中之一。
Ningjiaping Town is known for its tea-oil trees. Farmers this year had collected a decent amount of fruits. Oil extracted per acre is estimated to be three hundred thirty kilograms. Its value is approximated to be seventy million RMB.
素有“万亩油茶之乡”美誉的宁家坪镇，今年喜迎大丰收。每公顷平均可榨油330公斤，预计总收入可达7040余万元。
Located on the south side of Danling Mountain, Lingjiaping Town has mild weather. It became a proper place to plant tea-oil trees. According to documents in 1977, the collection of tea-oil fruits in this township had occupied ten precent of the total amount of reaped tea-oil fruits in the entire county. Even after several incidents of forest fire and decreases of young labor forces, this town still has more than two thousand acres of tea-oil trees.
位于彤岭大山南侧的宁家坪镇是适应油茶生产的攸县主产地。据有关资料记载，1977年收获的茶油约占全县总任务的1/10。即使山火频发和青壮年劳力外出务工油茶林总面积有所下降，全镇仍现有油茶林2千余公顷。
Liu Zijian is a “new farmer” who had worked at many places other than Ningjiaping Town. Twenty years ago, heard of the national policy that supports economy in the countryside, he was determined to come back and started a business. He made a large amount of investment on planting tea-oil trees here. This town government also had invited agricultural experts to advise the use of grafting to improve production. By employing this method, farmers had replanted many old tea-oil trees. In an addition, this town had mobilized many neighboring towns to set up fire barriers in forests.
刘子建是该镇宁家坪社区走南闯北的“新农人”，20年前，顺应生态文明的新潮流，他毅然返乡创业，并投入大量资金在种植油茶林上。该镇邀请林业局技术专家现场指导对老茶树进行高位截枝的钻木嫁接，有效提高了油茶产量. 该镇和周边县镇沿山火多发区合力治理，设置山脊防火隔离带；
Tea-oil trees does not need fertilizers and any particular antibiotics. Farmers can benefit from it considerably every year. The poverty is significantly alleviated by productions of tea-oil fruits, hot peppers and gingers, these major three produces in this county.
油茶林不需特殊治虫，不需施肥. 它为村民持续创造可观的经济收入。 许多山民靠油茶、辣椒、生姜的“坪阳三宝”走上脱贫致富路。
