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Tea across multiple farmsteads in Nantou is growing poorly due to the lack of rainfall early this year. The damage is most severe in Zhushan and Lugu townships, where spring tea production could decrease by 40 to 60%. The Ministry of Agriculture announced that all tea-producing townships in Nantou, except Ren’ai Township, qualify for natural disaster subsidies.

Braving the rain, agricultural authorities check the spring tea crop. If it had rained like this a few months ago, this year’s spring tea would not have been so heavily impacted.

Yu Hao
Legislator (KMT)
It barely rained at all in January, and only for one day in early February, with scattered showers at the end of the month. It’s very serious. The crop has been seriously damaged.

Zhushan is Nantou’s second-biggest tea-producing township. It barely rained here at all in January, reaching standards for “disastrous weather” due to drought, the Ministry of Agriculture said. The drought has been the worst in Zhushan and Lugu townships, impacting the growth of new shoots and the size of leaves. This has led to a serious decrease in spring tea production.

Huang Cheng-tsung
Tea and Beverage Research Station official
The tea buds are shorter than the typical length of spring tea, with an overall sprouting rate of only 30 to 40%, which is very low.

Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Nantou’s Agriculture Bureau inspected the tea fields, confirming that the losses reach the standard for natural disaster relief.

Chiu Shao-wei
Nantou Country Government official
For Lugu, Zhushan, and other production areas in Nantou, including all the areas impacted by the disaster, we hope that the Ministry of Agriculture can provide subsidies.

The ministry said all tea-producing areas in Nantou except for Ren’ai Township would receive subsidies to help them through the disaster.

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