White tea crisis in Turkey

This year, the tea crisis, which faced the workforce problem caused by the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic, survived with the least damage as a result of the intense efforts of the producers. While producers, deprived of foreign labor, mobilize with their families to harvest their own gardens, the harvest shows that this difficult period was passed with the least damage. However, the pandemic has passed tangent to the process say that tea cultivation in Turkey is not right. White tea, which created its own market in the 2010s and turned into an important source of income for producers, is listed in the list of losses for 2020. This year's production of white tea, which is obtained by collecting the upper shoots of the tea plant called "buddha", was searched by candles. In the shadow of the quarantine days In fact, this decline in white tea is not new. The white tea yield, which was 810 kg in total in 2017, experienced the most dramatic decrease with 475 kg production ...