Sad story about high mountain oolong

That is really sad. Someone’s life work was destroyed before their eyes.

This sounds like the most convoluted reason to destroy tea plantations in history. It is too bad.

NOOOOOOOOO! This is such terrible news. Those poor farmers. And high mountain oolong is the BEST!

Very sad

I saw a discussion of this in a Facebook group where someone claimed it’s completely false, as described in this article (I think it’s the same one). As I understand her comment (the person rejecting the content) there was a limited case this really did relate to but the circumstances were nothing like as the article reported it. Personally I don’t know, but it doesn’t ring true, that a government would go out of their way to destroy a part of one of their country’s most prized industries.

This has unfortunately been happening for quite some time. Here is another article talking about it:
http://teamasters.blogspot.ca/2015/05/da-yu-ling-sorrow-and-joy.html

Very sad..

According to that the process wasn’t complete in that location but would be continued once the leases ended.

“The good news is there are still a few remaining plantations on Da Yu Ling. There, the leases have not expired, yet, or they are outside the area to protect.”

It’s not so clear to what extent this contradicts the other comments, since that person admitted this story wasn’t completely fabricated, but rejected the extent of the claims in that other story. Either way it is strange that they would go as far as described in the blog post, and one gets the sense from that it’s not isolated, even though it doesn’t address that.

This is a great conversation to get started. We’re received quite a few questions about this story so we spent the past weekend talking to farmers and friends in the area. Here’s what we found out. We hope this helps broaden the perspective on what’s going on!

https://eco-cha.com/blogs/news/116366660-the-basic-facts-behind-the-reclamation-of-dayuling-tea-farms

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