A refined air Pinglin is an ideal location for tea cultivation, and many there had been doing it since way back, but after Pinglin started winning first prizes in the provincial government's tea competitions, the government began to pay serious attention to Pinglin tea. Moreover, seeing the profitability of tea, almost all the local farmers began specializing in tea.
適合茶樹生長的坪林，早年就有不少人栽茶，而早期省政府的茶葉比賽，坪林鄉奪魁的紀錄，也引起了政府對坪林茶的重視，再加上鄉民看到茶葉帶來的經濟效益，原本還兼種點稻米或其他農作物的坪林人，幾乎全部改種茶。