For nearly 30 years Mrs. Chen, one of these farmers, has worked her family plot, a hectare of land that was converted to jasmine growing in 1976. She can pick over a catty (600 grams) of buds in an hour; if the buds have grown quite large, she can get as high as two catties per hour.
自民國六十五年將家中近一公頃的土地轉作成茉莉花田起，陳姓農婦採花已有三十年經驗，手腳俐落的她，一小時可摘一斤多，較大的花苞可達兩斤。