Tea Education — Organic farming

Organic farming, also known as eco-farming or bio-farming, originated early in the 20th century in reaction to conventional industrialized farming practices. Organic farming advocates using fertilizers of organic origin, biological pest control, mix-cropping, and fostering of insect predators, which are beneficial to sustainability, self-sufficiency, health, food security, and food safety. The Taiwanese government started to promote organic farming in 1987. The Tea Research and Extension Station (TRES), Council of Agriculture was set up in 1988, focusing on testing tea crop types at first, then research on organic farming techniques such as weeding, organic fertilizer, etc., later providing training to tea...