Helping them through this transition requires time. As for tea, Chiou Yi, a researcher with the Chung-hua Institute for Economic Research points out that the mainland produces 600,000 tons of tea leaves a year and exports 200,000. Taiwan, on the other hand, produces only 20,000 tons. If mainland tea is allowed to be imported, won't Taiwan's tea growers just get squeezed out?
又如茶葉，中華經濟研究院研究員邱毅指出，大陸茶年產六十萬公噸，出口廿萬公噸，而台灣茶葉總生產量只有二萬公噸，假使如茶商所說，開放大陸茶葉進口，那台灣茶農又有何生存空間？