Zisun tea grown on mountains is among the first batch of tea varieties that are ready to be picked in Changxing county, Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/WeChat account:huzhoufabu]

The spring tea harvest season has recently arrived in Huzhou's Changxing county, according to local media reports.

Zisun tea grown on mountains is among the first batch of tea varieties that are ready to be picked in the county. 

The harvest season for Zisun tea arrived about 10 days earlier than previous years due to the high temperature and ample rainfall this year, according to Chen Kehua, a farmer from a tea garden in Shuikou town in the county.

Chen said that starting from Feb 23, roughly 125 kilograms of tea will be harvested per day, which later can be processed to 30 kilograms of dried tea.

Lin Ruiyang, owner of the tea garden, said that they had received orders of more than 500 kilograms for dried Zisun tea, with a price of 5,600 yuan ($861.54) per kilogram.

Statistics show that the tea plantation in Changxing spans roughly 150,000 mu (10,000 hectares) this year, among which 37,000 mu is Zisun tea, which is expected to enter its mass harvest season in the first half of March.

More than 100,000 tea pickers from places including Shandong, Henan, and Anhui provinces across the nation are expected to be hired to lend a helping hand for the harvest season.