Drought Hard to Relieve, Spring Tea Output Cut by 30 Percent, Tea Farmers Cry Out in Distress
With drought and little rain, Zhanghu District, Yunlin's most important tea-producing area, has suffered heavy losses. The local village chief said that now is when the tea plants need water most, and without rain, the tea plants either wither and die or simply fail to grow. This year's spring tea will not only be cut by about 30 percent, but may even affect
With drought and little rain, Zhanghu District, Yunlin's most important tea-producing area, has suffered heavy losses. The local village chief said that now is when the tea plants need water most, and without rain, the tea plants either wither and die or simply fail to grow. This year's spring tea will not only be cut by about 30 percent, but may even affect the output of winter tea. However, because the threshold for subsidies has not yet been reached, the tea farmers are helpless and only hope the government can find a way to reduce their losses.
Walking into the tea gardens of Zhanghu District, this is Yunlin's most important tea-producing area, but because of the water shortage, the tea plants either wither and die or simply fail to grow. Local village chief Lin Zhengguo said: "Normal buds would all be this tall, but this one has already been damaged to the point that it can no longer grow."
The local village chief said that right now is precisely when the tea plants need water most, but it really has not rained for too long, causing about 10 jia of tea gardens to be affected and output to drop. Local village chief Lin Zhengguo VS. reporter said: "(How much has output dropped?) Output has dropped by at least around 30 percent or more."
Arriving at the tea-roasting factory, the owner's wife also said that this year the spring tea the tea farmers can harvest has dropped sharply, and some people do not even want to pick it at all. The owner's wife said: "Everyone is doing badly. Some people cannot even harvest. Yesterday someone came and said that some tea leaves have grown but simply cannot be picked from the top."
In addition to affecting the output of spring tea, the farmers stressed that if it still does not rain, even winter tea will be affected. But the subsidy threshold has not yet been reached, and the county government said it will ask the township office to keep monitoring and, if necessary, provide appropriate assistance.