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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Growing and Harvesting
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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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Tour guides offered tea picking jobs
With many tour guides struggling to make ends meet, the Huangshan Association of Tour Guides released a statement last week suggesting them to take up temporary jobs. And despite travel…
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Lao villagers enjoy better lives through Chinese tea
There are only 800 people in the village that is home to the planation, and before the garden opened more than half of them lived in poverty. After the 36…
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Terraced tea garden breathes new life into Chinese village
Ascending the stone steps of a terraced tea garden, Fang Dongyu, 68, is busy picking fresh tea leaves with other villagers as the harvest season of spring tea has started.…
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Farmers harvest tea leaves in Shanglin, Guangxi
A farmer picks tea leaves at a tea garden in Shanglin County, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 30, 2022…
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Handpicks Leaves From 1,000-Year-Old Terroir In China
Founded By Tea Expert Shunan Teng, Tea Drunk Preserves China’s Historic, Native Plants Nestled throughout rural China, secret wild tea trees (from when now-defunct villages cultivated trees centuries ago) house…
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Making a fortune from tea leaves
The family of Mr. To Van Khiem, 52, Head of Khe Coc village in Tuc Tranh commune, Thai Nguyen province, makes thousands of USD per kilogram of processed tea by…
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This Shizuoka glamping site has it all: gym, pool and a tea field with Mt Fuji view
This could just be one of the most complete glamping facilities in Japan A new glamping site is opening in the heart of Shizuoka, a prefecture responsible for producing up to 40…
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The centuries-old tea forest
Visiting the thousand-year-old Snow Shan tea “elder” Mr. Dang Van Chung, Chairman of Cao Bo commune People’s Committee (Vi Xuyen district, Ha Giang province), welcomed us with a pot of…
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Farmers struggling with drought won’t give up: Not for all the tea in Taiwan
Extreme weather experienced in Taiwan over the last two years is forcing tea farmers to find creative ways to keep their crops alive. After surviving a once-in-a-century drought, tea plantations…
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First Belgian tea hits supermarket shelves
The first tea made in Belgium is now on supermarket shelves in Delhaize and Bio-Planet. The tea has been cultivated by Raf Rombouts from Loenhout (in the province of Antwerp…
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Tea-Licious
Australians love a cuppa – popping the kettle on and sitting down with a nice cup of tea is a daily ritual for many, with over 16 million kilos of tea consumed in…
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