Thai Nguyen province is a  big tea producing area in Vietnam's northern region.

Taiwan mostly purchases green tea from Vietnam and Japan, with the amount from Vietnam accounting for 84 percent of the total import.

The Vietnam Tea Association, said Vietnam has 125,000 hectares of tea farming, mainly in the northern region and the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.

Vietnam has the world’s second largest area producing tea, behind China. The country consumes 45,000 tonnes of tea a year and exports more than 140,000 tonnes.