The Fourth Tea-Picking Festival of Anji White Tea kicked off on April 09, 2012

It is good news for both the tea merchants and tea drinkers that the fresh Anji White Tea is now available on the market.

According to the local tea farmers, this year’s tea-picking festival has attracted a lot of tea merchants as well as regular customers to the Anji County in the north of Zhejiang Province. The first fresh teas picked during the spring time are always the favorite to both tea merchants and tea drinkers since the quality of the spring tea is the best of all. In order to buy the first fresh spring tea, businessmen come to Anji from places far away and there are even people from Northeast of China like Liaoning Province.

Anji White Tea is not a variety of white tea. It is actually a green tea. The fresh leaves of Anji white tea trees changes from white color in spring to green color in summer. Tea-pickers will pluck the white fresh leaves in spring in order to make the famous Anji White Tea. The fresh leaves will be processed with the green tea processing method, and therefore it becomes a green tea.

As more and more people like drinking this tea, the production volume of Anji White Tea has reached 1000 tons in 2011. Local people also take measures to protect their high quality Anji White Tea against the fake ones. First, they create a “mother-son trademark” system, which enhances the brand image of Anji White Tea and helps people to get the origin-traceable high quality tea as well. Second, a new Anji White Tea Industry Alliance has already been established during this year’s tea picking festival in order to strengthen the competitiveness of Anji White Tea.

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As far as health and food safety are concerned, nowadays organic food has become more and more popular in people’s daily life. Organic tea is not an exception.

Organic tea is produced without using chemical pesticides or fertilizers. And the  tea turns out to be healthier and it provides better taste than normal tea. Here are some reasons why organic tea should be the No.1 tea-drinking choice.

1. A natural and healthy growing environment is the basic condition for producing high quality tea. So organic tea plantations are usually at remote areas where there is no industry and pollution. Here is an example, a tree plantation named 3H-Sender is  famous for producing high-quality organic tea Tieguanyin. It’s located in a remote village called Daishan, in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China. It’s surrounded by green mountains and it normally takes people about several hours to drive there. The location ensures a good and non-polluted environment for organic tea. At the meantime, the processing does no harm to the natural environment. So producing organic tea is a win-win choice.

2. Organic tea has a much higher standard of planting and manufacturing processes than normal tea. A lot of human labor instead of machine work is involved in the process of planting, fertilizing, weeding, picking and final processing. Any chemical pesticides or fertilizers are refused. Tea farmers use natural compost instead such as manure of animals. That makes sure that the tea has a healthy and good taste. Also, anything related to pollution should not be involved in tea producing process.

3. One difference between organic tea and inorganic tea is that the flavor stays even after being brewed 8 to 10 times， while normal tea will be out of flavor after 3 or 4 times. So the flavor of organic tea is comparatively better.

4. As for health, organic tea is better than inorganic tea. Because of better and healthier environment, the organic compost used for processing the tea turns into various nutritious elements such as catechin, tea polysaccharide, tea polyphenols and various micro elments which are good to the human body.

In conclusion, compared with inorganic tea, organic tea has a higher quality according to strict processing principles. And it’s more beneficial to the human body.

So for a better environment, and a healthier life, organic tea is your best drinking choice. And we’d like to provide you with organic tea of high quality.