 The difficulties and challenges facing Wenshan Baozhong tea |
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1.Through our
research and interviews, we found out many challenges and difficulties facing
Taipei
tea: |
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Because the appearance of tea beverages in the market, many artificial
flavors and sugar are added to tea, causing many people to dislike original tea
flavor. The reason the teas on the market are so strong is because they have
artificial enzymes and flavoring, they are not good teas if they need additives
to hide their original taste. |
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Tea
production process graph.
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Demonstration
tea area.
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2.The decrease in production area and
population: |
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Currently in the entire area of
Taipei
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Districts continue to produce tea, the young population all work in the cities,
causing the production and import amounts of tea to decrease yearly. No wonder
Mr. Ming-Yuan Lin of the Nangang Farmer’s Association jokingly said that there
are only tea picking mothers nowadays, and no more tea picking girls! |
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3.The challenges of other beverages and
imported teas: |
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With the development of modern foods and drinks, there are
constantly new beverages being promoted that attract the attention of young
consumers, it is very difficult to find a young group that is willing to calm
down, and leisurely enjoy a teapot of good tea. In the past few years, the
ratio of cheaper imported teas is steadily increasing. It is hard for
traditional tea farmers and tea merchants to continue operations, for example
Wang’s tea that we interviewed, in the past the tea industry was flourishing,
but now there are no longer many local tea merchants in Da Dao Cheng. Wang’s
Tea is one of the few tea merchants still located there, their perseverance and
management efforts are invaluable, but it causes us to worry whether the
traditional and elegant tea aroma can continue to flow around us in the future. |
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4.The profit cannot be reasonably allocated
to tea farmers: |
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The tea farmer sales system has commission taken at every level,
resulting in the inability of tea farmers to gain reasonable profits, resulting
in a bad cycle; many tea farmers are unwilling to make additional investments,
so the tea quality is lower. |
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The tea show |
The tea farmer |
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5.The irrigation water does not have stable
sources: |
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The rain level is uneven in the rain season and drought season in
Taiwan
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most mountains lack irrigation sources, so the tea quality is not stable. |
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 The future |
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These factors: the outflow of young workers, decrease in tea growing
area, and the competition with imported teas, all cause problems for tea
farmers, how do we face and solve these problems? How do we develop local tea
culture characteristics? How do we maintain the industry historical value? Many
questions and problems are waiting for us to solve, but it also requires the
promotion of the government and the people. Many farmers have found
opportunities through government assistance, they have started organic tea
growing, developed a tea production location resume system, held many tea
knowledge competitions and certifications, taken the tea industry into the
recreational industry, and increased the variety of processed tea products;
allowing the public to understand tea culture, tea knowledge, and to enjoy a
variety of tea products. “There is nothing that is hard in the world, as long
as someone is willing to put in effort.” Maybe through one small step at a time
and the hard work from different sectors, we will allow the aroma of tea to
continue to flow in our lives. |
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