Tea gardens in South China’s Fujian province are seen as a sally port for reducing agricultural GHG emissions thanks to their high plant coverage.
A major tea-producing county with 154 square miles of tea plantations in south-eastern Fujian, Anxi has been promoting techniques to reduce carbon emissions, among other things, by growing high-yield varieties, closer planting of tea plants to boost photosynthesis, and using smart pest-prevention methods to reduce the use of chemical pesticides…