Old tea forests in Pu’er win World Heritage Site title
The Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er gained the World Heritage Site status at the ongoing 45th session of the World Heritage Committee of…
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1,400-year-old tea tree thrives in Yunnan
There is a saying that goes “a tree is our most intimate contact with nature.” Meet this 1,400-year-old tea tree, a living wonder of the “Yunnan big leaf” variety! Standing tall…
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Chinese market can help Darjeeling tea regain its premium touch: ITEA chairman
In the domestic market, the aromatic tea is facing competitions from the varieties grown in Nepal. Darjeeling tea, famous for its unique taste and aroma but facing low international demand…
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England’s only tea plantation has showcased the world’s first ROBOTIC tea harvester
England’s only tea plantation has showcased the world’s first ROBOTIC tea harvester. The ‘Teabot’ at Tregothnan in Cornwall, claims to be the first ever harvesting robot of its kind. Powered…
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Tea garden in Sichuan resembles Earth’s ‘fingerprint’
From an aerial perspective, this tea garden in Hongya County, Meishan City, Sichuan Province, resembles a “fingerprint of the Earth.” Regarded as a work of agricultural art, the tea trees…
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Chongqing promotes tea industry with culture and tourism
A girl poses for photography at a tea farm in Yongchuan district of Chongqing on March 22. In recent years, Yongchuan district of Chongqing has focused on cultivating the tea…
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Rebirth of a Legend: Reviving an 800-Year-Old Tea Farm
The city of Uji in Kyoto has been famed for tea for more than eight centuries, but much has been lost in the depths of that time. Now a group…
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Better lending products seen in tea leaves
Banks create big data platform, offer GI trademark loans to farmers in Fujian province to boost business Banking institutions in Fujian province have strengthened financial support for local farmers and…
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The Art of Tea: University professor leads tea tasting, explains history and culture
Shu-Chuan Wang-McGrath loves tea. She drinks it every day and travels the world to purchase it. And as a communication studies and languages professor at Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO),…
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Monk Biancai remembered as new Longjing tea picking season begins
When the new Longjing tea picking season began this month in Hangzhou, local farmers held a ritual to honor Monk Biancai. In the Biancai Pavilion, the first glass of freshly…
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Hadong brews Korean tea for the world
Secluded mountain region prepares for world tea exhibition An old folk song from Hadong County in South Gyeongsang Province evinces the importance of tea in Korean culture. It goes like…
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Tea gardens increase carbon sink capacity
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…
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How new brews are stirring up Turkey’s tea country
A top a terrifyingly steep mountain in northeastern Turkey, the village of Haremtepe resembles an island surrounded by a vast ocean of green: verdant, bushy rows of tea plantations continue…
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Tibet tea production turns over a new leaf
An agronomist from Fujian province has successfully introduced a type of tea with a rich aroma, from which various kinds of processed teas can be produced, at the world’s highest…
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Graduates breathe fresh ideas into tea
Cooperative modernized and expanded by founder’s son is boosting profits, prosperity for villagers in Guizhou Ever since Fan Hongjing quit his job at a securities company in Qingdao, Shandong province,…
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Ancient tea-producing area in China recognized as agricultural heritage
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization recently recognized three sites in China as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems. These three regions included an ancient tea-producing area in Anxi county in…
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Sri Lankan tea pickers’ dreams shattered by economic crisis
On a lush plantation in Sri Lanka, Arulappan Ideijody deftly plucks the tips of each tea bush, throwing them over her shoulder into an open basket on her back. After…
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Tea gardens help villagers brew a success story
A worker (left) picks leaves in a tea garden in Maona, a Li ethnic village (right) in the city of Wuzhishan, South China’s Hainan province. [Photo/Xinhua] At the break of dawn,…
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Japan Photo Journal: Traditional new tea leaf picking underway in Aichi Pref
Women clad in traditional “kasuri” dyed fabric clothes pick new tea leaves in the central Japan city of Nishio, Aichi Prefecture, on May 2, 2022. New tea leaf picking began…
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View of tea garden in China’s Hubei
Aerial photo taken on April 26, 2022 shows the view of a tea garden in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China’s Hubei Province. (Photo by Yang Shunpi/Xinhua)…
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