Green tea farmers struggle for economic survival
by editors@theworld.org (Hannah Kirshner) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6Q9MD)
Green tea is a major industry in Shizuoka prefecture on Japan's Pacific coast. Over a third of the tea leaves produced in Japan come from Shizuoka. Google Shizuoka" and you'll find images of hillsides covered in neat rows of bright-green tea bushes, with Mt. Fuji in the background. But that scenery is changing. Reporter Hannah Kirshner headed to Shizuoka to find out why some tea farmers are innovating, and others are calling it quits.