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Oriental Beauty tea wins UK 3-star award: Chang Chia-chi goes from pilot to champion tea maker
According to a Wealth Magazine report, Chang Chia-chi's business cards and tea bags feature a sailing ship with a teapot as its hull, printed with "Formo Cha TAIWAN 1869." Why 1869? "Because that was the year Taiwan tea first stepped onto the world stage." He gazes at the round label on the tea can reading "Great Test 2020" with two stars and smiles: "The 2021 label hasn't arrived yet. It took me 3 years to finish drawing this ship!"
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A middle-aged couple switches to farming - from a two-fen plot to 1 hectare, growing perfect golden passion fruit
The sweet-and-sour taste of passion fruit is so addictive after one bite, making it a refreshing summer fruit. The vine-ripened red passion fruit at "Shihui Organic Farm" in Qishan, Kaohsiung, naturally ripens on the vine and drops into pre-set hanging nets. The farmers use nets to protect their hard-earned harvest, and also net the most perfectly balanced sweet-and-sour flavor!
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Severe mouse plague in eastern Australia, rat rain appears from granary equipment
The mouse plague in eastern Australia has been severe over the past six months, with farmers facing the worst rodent infestation in decades. Videos of the local rat infestation have gone viral online, among them a clip posted on Twitter by Australian journalist Lucy Thackray, in which a farmer, while cleaning granary equipment, is seen with a huge mass of rats
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Heirloom seeds passed down through generations, yet over 95% have already disappeared from farmland
More than ten thousand years ago, humans realized they could keep part of the harvested seeds to replant the following year. "Xin Yu": The common people ate meat and drank blood, and clothed themselves in hides and fur; as for Shennong, he thought that crawling insects and running beasts were difficult to raise the people on, so he sought things that could be eaten, tasted the fruits of the hundred plants, and examined sour, bitter, and
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Taiwan pineapples banned from import by mainland China: how big is the impact on Taiwan?
China Customs recently suddenly announced the suspension of imports of Taiwan pineapples (ananas), the notice stated that from March 1, 2021, the import of pineapples from the Taiwan region into the mainland would be suspended, and explained that quarantine pests had been intercepted multiple times in pineapples imported from the Taiwan region into the mainland, and that in order to prevent plant epidemic risks from the source
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Liuba Native Pigs and Native Chickens from Hanzhong, Shaanxi Obtain SEIC Organic Certification
Liuba Native Pigs and Native Chickens from Hanzhong, Shaanxi Obtain SEIC Organic Certification. The native pigs and native chickens produced by Liuba County Shancheng Agricultural Specialties Co., Ltd. have obtained the SEIC organic product certification certificate, which marks that Liuba native pigs and native chickens are pure natural, pollution-free
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Latest palm oil spot quotes released: where will China's palm oil go from here?
At the start of 2020, bullish fundamentals shaped the palm oil market. At that time, global demand for palm oil was gradually rising, with consumption growing more than twice as fast as production. For the 2019/20 marketing year, palm oil consumption was expected to exceed production by 3.2 million tonnes, and this supply-demand gap could only be filled by reducing
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New wax apple variety "Honey Peach Wax Apple" from Taiwan, China hits the market, developed by the Kaohsiung Agricultural Improvement Station
The Kaohsiung Agricultural Improvement Station has bred a new wax apple variety, "Kaohsiung No. 2 - Spring Peach," which is currently the largest-fruited wax apple variety, with an appealing pink-peach color, known as the "Honey Peach Wax Apple," and its fiberless texture makes it very suitable for the elderly; it is now available in small quantities. Kaohsiung District Agricultural
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A new pineapple variety has arrived from Taiwan, China! Hailed as the "mango pineapple," "Tainung No. 23" is expected to become the rising star of the market
The Chiayi Agricultural Experiment Branch of the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute today announced a new pineapple variety, "Tainung No. 23," developed through 24 years of breeding efforts by crossing "Tainung No. 19" as the female parent with "Tainung No. 21" as the male parent. Farmers affectionately call it the "mango pineapple." Its sugar-to-acid ratio
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Where are nectarines mainly produced? What tree are they grafted from?
When eating peaches, we all know that the surface of a peach has a layer of fuzz. It cannot be eaten, but this fuzz is also very hard to wash off, so what should be done? Later, a new variety of peach appeared on the market, and that is the nectarine. Do you know that some regions in China
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