LOSS OF FOLK TEA PLANTATIONS

A number of workers picking tea in the plantation of PT. Chakra Godta, Village Tenjolaya, Ciwidey, Bandung Regency, West Java, Tuesday (20/5). According to the Indonesian Tea Council, people’s tea plantations are increasingly rugi in the last two decades with an area of land that is increasingly reduced by 150 thousand hectares reduced by 30 thousand hectares per ten years due to the increase in the import of tea that causes a decrease in tea prices. ANTARA PHOTO/Novrian Arbi/s/ama/14