The tea industry is under pressure to improve quality and market diversification for a strategic shift over the next five years from bulk exports to repositioning itself higher in the global value chain, experts have said.
About 14,200 tonnes of Vietnamese tea, worth over US$22.5 million, was shipped to Taiwan between January and September, marking a year-on-year increase of 6.1 per cent in volume and 8.3 per cent in value.