What does the cost of tea leaves?

There are a lof ot kinds of tea in the world. Maybe too many.  :)

Here we are going to talk about the price of Oolong tea in Taiwan, but it also could be a helpful standard in your country, we believe it.

What does the price of tea involve in?

1. Fresh tea leaves
    (To make 600g tea leaves, it needs 3000g fresh tea leaves to be the raw materials approximately)
*Fresh tea leaves = the tea leaves tea farmers just pick up from tea trees
*Tea leaves = the tea leaves you usually could purchase in tea stores

2. Labor and works

   According to the process of making tea, it includes the steps: picking up, turning over for fermented,  

   rubbing, grinding, drying, baking, shaping, packing, and delivering.

3. Profit

   Tea farmers need money, middlemen(it could has several levels) needs money, and tea stores also need

   money.

These items are what you pay for to have a bag of tea leaves almost.
Later we could talk about how much tea leaves do cost usually.