Pinglin pushes "Taiwan Blue Magpie Tea" to grow good tea and protect water.

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"Pinglin is the catchment area of the Feicui Reservoir. If you don't use pesticides and chemical fertilizers to grow tea, you can cultivate sentient beings." Over the past three years, Lin Dao-hsien, a tea farmer in Pinglin, has worked with teachers and students of the Urban and Rural Institute of National Taiwan University to grow tea in an environmentally friendly way and market it under the name of "Taiwan Blue Magpie Tea," seeking a win-win situation for both the drinking water source of downstream residents and the livelihood of upstream residents.

The dilemma of tea farmers in Pinglin: the pull between water quality and livelihood

The team of National Taiwan University Urban and Rural Institute cooperated with Pinglin tea farmers to offer Taiwan Blue Magpie Tea / Huang Baijun.

In addition to lowering the threshold, new rural social enterprises are also actively expanding sales channels, including farmers' bazaars, physical store consignment, online ordering, and so on. In order to attract more young people to drink tea, they have partnered with 20 coffee shops to sell Taiwan blue magpie tea on consignment. Huang Baijun said: "the stores that are willing to cooperate with us have one thing in common. They all have anti-nuclear flags in their stores."

"in water source protection areas, people cannot be excluded. We must first consider the existence of people. Only after taking into account people's livelihood can we have the opportunity to encourage more farmers to join the organic road. " Huang Baijun said.

Zhang Shenglin said: "although the current situation of Pinglin is subject to many restrictions because of the reservoir, it also has its world-class particularity, because it is a tea village that cannot be developed, and it is very qualified to become an organic tea village, and it uses tea gardens and local natural ecology to develop travel courses."

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