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A worker removes weed around Camellia sinenis shrubs in Fujian province, China.Due to climate change the growing season in China's agriculture sector is lengthening, with an earlier spring and a later winter, and timing of fertilisation, irrigation, planting and harvesting must all change. Production processes are altered as their elements all change: Coastal farming regions such as Fujian province, are at risk of flooding, saltification, or erosion according to Xu Yinlong, a member of the Scientific Steering Committee leading UNEP's ‘Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation'. In order to adapt, the tea planation in the image above has resolved to switching to an organic plantation higher up in a mountainous area. Not only the shrubs are less vulnerable to flooding , but in addition organic farming yields higher quality plants compared to conventional farming and tastes better. This is most likely because organic tea plants live under greater stress than conventional tea plants since farm managers don't apply the same amount of pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals to protect them. Under stress, organic plants produce more phyochemicals.#organicfarming #organic #climatechange #katharinahesse #teacultivation #有机 #fujian

A worker removes weed around Camellia sinenis shrubs in Fujian province, China. 

Due to climate change the growing season in China's agriculture sector is lengthening, with an earlier spring and a later winter, and timing of fertilisation, irrigation, planting and harvesting must all change. Production processes are altered as their elements all change: Coastal farming regions such as Fujian province, are at risk of flooding, saltification, or erosion according to Xu Yinlong, a member of the Scientific Steering Committee leading UNEP's ‘Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation'. In order to adapt, the tea planation in the image above has resolved to switching to an organic plantation higher up in a mountainous area. Not only the shrubs are less vulnerable to flooding , but in addition organic farming yields higher quality plants compared to conventional farming and tastes better. This is most likely because organic tea plants live under greater stress than conventional tea plants since farm managers don't apply the same amount of pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals to protect them. Under stress, organic plants produce more phyochemicals. 

#organicfarming #organic #climatechange #katharinahesse #teacultivation #有机 #fujian