But there are only a dozen or so assessors legally qualified to carry out the task, so to avoid paying a pricy assessment fee for each time the assessor visits, the farmers would amass as large amounts of tea as they could, sealing the tea for a month or two as they awaited assessment. As such, it ’ s common for operations to get backlogged, causing farmers to lose their patience.
但因台灣具有公信力的「品師」只有十幾位，為避免讓品師疲於奔命，茶農也不願意分批多次付費，故多採「大量」、「集中」進行；為了等待評鑑，茶葉封存一、二個月動彈不得是常有的事，更令茶農耐性全失。