On the bus to work this morning, I saw an article shared by a public account about tea picking.
He said that they will go to to pick tea every White Dews, but this year is an exception, and basically no tea can be picked.
Because it's very dry this summer, and the tea tree could not grow up, and the tender buds basically did not grow.
So next year must be difficult for tea supplier.
Chinese tea poor harvest year
It has been lashing rain / pouring buckets in Yunnan over the summer. There are actually lines of water coming down now from the sky as I write this 
I still haven't pressed our tea because the rain all over the summer and that's not good for drying cakes after pressing ( unless doing in drying chamber. but we prefer natural way ) .
So it really depends on location in China.
I still haven't pressed our tea because the rain all over the summer and that's not good for drying cakes after pressing ( unless doing in drying chamber. but we prefer natural way ) .
So it really depends on location in China.
From what I heard the bigger challenge is about hiring tea pickers. Unless many countries where tea pickers are underpaid, in China it's hard to hire this year. Due to covid, many seasonal workers prefer to stay in their home town to avoid getting stuck.
that was in Yiwu last year , when village ( and so the access to the mountain ) was closed . Other issue is that same time there is a harvest of other things which are mostly paid better than picking the tea leaves, so hard to find the workers.
Can confirm that. Tea pickers were hard to recruit in the past two years, that's what I hear from some friends in the tea industry. The pay is not that bad, actually really good to other tea exporting countries, but due to covid just less people interested in seasonal jobs. That said, I still managed to buy some really good teas from China though, so I guess it depends from region to region.