In my
area, sakura season is about to over now. And now, it is time for TEA!!
On
April 7th, the Kyoto tea authority announced “hoga sengen (budding announcement)”.
The announcement is annually issued when about 70% of new buds of “Yabukita”
variety (the most common variety to produce green tea) cultivated at a research
institute are grown about twice as big as the size of leaves which are wrapped
the buds. Usually, about one month after “hoga
sengen”, tea is ready to be plucked.
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For sure, tea front line is now moving
north throughout Japan. And this is just FYR......, the announcement of this year was issued two
days later than usual. Please wait a little bit longer :-)
