If you liked this story, share it with other people. In Yunnan, China, smallholder farmers applying agroecological principles to tea cultivation have seen results in the form of better-tasting tea ...

Consultation’s objectives included discussion on agroforestry development by the small tea growers (STG) for better land use ...

Ashoka W.*, who started his tea plantation in Pitekele about 10 years ago, told Mongabay, “Our lives depend on the price of tea. If it goes down, so does our quality of life.” ...

Agroforestry provides tea plants with more shade, which helps to protect them from the heat of the Sun, and also reduces the amount of moisture that tea plants lose by transpiration, ...

Kenya is eyeing a major boost in export earnings, with a plan to double its annual tea revenue from Sh215 billion to Sh430 billion within five to ten years. This will see Kenya become the first ...

These tea gardens represent a form of sustainable tea agroforestry that is the embodiment of the Chinese civilizational ideals of "harmony between nature and humanity" (tian ren he yi).

Guwahati: The USAID, in partnership with Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited, has established an advanced tree nursery at Kakajan Tea Estate, Jorhat. This initiative supports climate change ...

Another way to protect tea quality is to preserve wild tea plants and agroforests. Agroforestry is a land management technique which basically combines trees with agricultural crops on the same ...

So, what’s the potential for agroforestry in New England? According to the USDA's 2017 Census of Agriculture, only about 1% of farms across the country employ agroforestry practices.

Hyderabad: Agroforestry near the city outskirts has the potential to restore over 50,000 hectares of degraded land, create more than 25,000 jobs, and sequester 1.2 million tons of CO₂ annually ...

Agroforestry closely resembles the way Indigenous peoples managed the lands that became Brazil for millennia. That was before the 20th century, when leaders of European descent began calling on ...