Season's 1st green tea leaves auction held in Shizuoka

Season's 1st green tea leaves auction held in Shizuoka

A tea market staff member (R) holding an abacus mediates negotiations with a buyer during the first auction of the season's new green tea leaves in central Japan's Shizuoka city on April 24, 2017. About 1,734 kilograms of tea grown in Shizuoka Prefecture were traded on the day, with rare hand-rolled tea leaves fetching as high as 1.08 million yen per kg and machine-rolled tea as much as 88,800 yen per kg. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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