Beginning in the 1990s, tea growers in Luku began to feel the effects of competition from other kinds of tea, and also faced problems of rising production costs and natural withering of tea trees, so they began following the path of "quality, not quantity."
民國八十年代後，鹿谷茶農感受到其他茶種競爭，加上生產成本提高、茶樹衰老，轉而改走「重質不重量」的精緻化路線。