One kilogram of freshly rolled Japanese tea leaves produced within the central Japanese area of Shizuoka Prefecture offered for a document 1.96 million yen (about $15,466) on the season’s first public sale, which passed off on Monday.
The leaves of inexperienced tea had been harvested in Fujinomiya and offered on the Shizuoka Japan Tea Market’s biannual public sale to ring within the newest harvest. Shizuoka Prefecture is famend in Japan for its inexperienced tea. Market officers have mentioned that regardless that this 12 months’s tea grew a bit slower than ordinary, however the high quality of the tea is sweet.
At a proper occasion on the market’s headquarters, its president Yasuhide Uchino acknowledged that regardless of the fixed rise in uncooked supplies and gasoline prices, the market “is striving to ensure it offers tasty tea at reasonable costs.”
The bell signaling the start of enterprise rang round 7 a.m. Then, agricultural employees and tea merchants had been seen negotiating costs utilizing Japanese “soroban” Abacuses. The sound of clapping was heard when offers had been profitable.
“We could acquire tea with a good shape and colour,” mentioned a glad Natsuki Wada, 35, a wholesaler of processed teas situated inside Shizuoka metropolis.
Trading was additionally carried out for teas grown exterior of Shizuoka Prefecture, together with from Kagoshima Prefecture in Okinawa’s southwestern prefectures. It is anticipated to be the most effective time to do tea hand-rolling in late April.
It was reported at 8:10 a.m. that the Shizuoka Japanese Tea Market introduced had the buying and selling quantity of the Shizuoka-grown tea of 1,732 kg, with a median value per kilogram of 5,027 yen.
Source: Kyodo
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