Tea has been grown in the highlands of North Thailand for some two hundred years and has long been the most important tree crop, apart from forest products. However, there has in recent years been a change in the production pattern of the traditional ‘miang’, or pickled tea, increasingly giving way to green leaf production for black or semi-fermented tea.
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