And last September, the Agriculture Bureau of Nantou County announced that tea plants of low quality will be chopped down and used for fertilizer in order to encourage growers to find substitutes for the tea crop, as well as to restrict production.
而茶園擴張情形最嚴重的南投縣，縣政府農業局則於去年九月表示，在茶農尚難找到替代的經濟作物時，將質劣、價格不好的夏茶茶菁剪掉，直接覆蓋茶樹根部做肥料，以減少全年產量。