The region's growers of such valuable crops as tea and medicinal herbs have suffered, causing prices of those commodities to soar.
Governmental and institutional support and involvement would be instrumental in facilitating adoption of adaptation options such as joint-production of tea with valuable timber crops.
Tea is too valuable to conquer the high street; too precious to consume on the run.
Despite being steeped in salt water, the tea was still valuable enough for some bystanders to row out and scoop up clumps.
As a result it became a popular store for valuable cargoes including brandy, cotton, tea, silk, tobacco, ivory and sugar.
The convoy was an immensely valuable prize, its cargo of tea, silk and porcelain valued at over £8 million in contemporary values (the equivalent of £ as of ).
These compounds contribute to many of the features that make tea a highly valuable component of the human diet.
"Twenty years ago no one had the idea that tea could become so valuable," said Chen Jinqiang, an official in Xishuangbanna.
As one of the most important but seriously endangered wild relatives of the cultivated tea, Camellia taliensis harbors valuable gene resources for tea tree improvement in the future.
We are confident that our transcriptome dataset is a valuable addition to the publicly available tea genomic information.
