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Taiwan’s tea growers scramble to adapt to extreme weather




Last year’s once-in-a-century drought followed by torrential rain this year have left Taiwan’s tea farmers scrambling to adapt to the extreme weather changes.“Climate is the thing we can least control in managing our tea plantation,” said Chien Shun-yih as he looked out over his withering tea fields in the island’s picturesque southern Meishan township. “We really do rely on the sky to eat.”Taiwan’s tea output does not come close to matching China or India’s, but what it lacks in quantity it…



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