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­　　Why you could soon be missing your cup of Darjeeling tea

­　　這種茶你可能再也喝不到了

­　　If you are a tea connoisseur, here’s some bad news: your morning cuppa of steaming Darjeeling tea may soon be difficult to get.

­　　如果你喜歡品茶，那這里有個壞消息:你的早上常喝的一杯冒熱氣的大吉嶺茶可能很快就很難得到了。

­　　Famously called the "champagne of teas", it is grown in 87 gardens in the foothills of the Himalayas in Darjeeling in West Bengal state. Some of the bushes are as old as 150 years and were introduced to the region by a Scottish surgeon.

­　　它被稱為“茶中的香檳”，在西孟加拉邦大吉嶺的喜馬拉雅山麓上的87個花園中生長。一些灌木已經有150年的歷史了，由一位蘇格蘭外科醫生介紹給該地區。

­　　Half of the more than 8 million kg - 60% of it is certified organic - of this sought-after tea produced every year is exported, mainly to the UK, Europe and Japan. The tea tots up nearly 80m dollars in annual sales.

­　　每年生產的800多萬公斤茶葉中，有60%都是有機食品，主要銷往英國、歐洲和日本。這里的茶合計近八千萬美元的年銷售額。

­　　Darjeeling tea is also one of the world’s most expensive - some of it has fetched prices of up to 850 dollars per kg. The tea is also India’s first Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) product.

­　　大吉嶺茶也是世界上最貴的茶之一——其中一些的價格高達850美元每公斤。茶葉也是印度第一個受保護的PGI產品。

­　　Since June, Darjeeling has been hit by violent protests and prolonged strikes in support of a campaign by a local party demanding a separate state for the area’s majority Nepali-speaking Gorkha community.

­　　自今年6月以來，達耶林一直存在暴力抗議和長期罷工的問題，支持一場由當地政黨發起的運動，這次運動要求這個以尼泊爾語為主的Gorkha社區獨立成為一個國家。

­　　The upshot: some 100,000 workers - permanent and temporary - working in the gardens have halted work. Production has been severely hit. Only a third of last year’s crop of 8.32 million kg had been harvested when work stopped in June. If the trouble continues, garden owners say they are staring at losses amounting to nearly $40m.

­　　這就導致了大約10萬名本來在花園中工作的工人已經永久地或者臨時地停止了工作。生產受到了嚴重的打擊。在去年6月停工期間，去年的832萬公斤作物中，只有三分之一被收割。如果這件事繼續發酵，老板說損失將近4000萬美元。