A farmer is seen in a tea garden in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/WeChat account: huzhoufabu]

The spring tea harvest season in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, recently began, and will run until late April.

The tea plantation in Huzhou spans roughly 434,000 mu (28,933.3 hectares) this year, with nearly 350,000 tea pickers from outside the city expected to be involved in the harvest.

Mogan Huangya and Changxing Zisun tea are among the first batch of tea leaves ready to be picked.

The harvest of more than 100 mu of Mogan Huangya at Shuangfeng Tea garden in Huzhou's Deqing county started on March 9, and the garden is expected to have a yield of 4,000 kilograms of tea this year, according to its general manager Ni Jingtong. 

Due to the robust recovery of market demand, the number of orders received by the garden so far is nearly double that of the same period last year, according to Ni.

The actual income generated per mu of tea will rise slightly this year in Huzhou given the stable output volume and a 10 percent rise in price, said Liu Liping, an official at the Huzhou agricultural science and technology development center.

Luo Yuanfu, a tea picker from Guangde, Anhui province, said that she can earn more than 300 yuan ($43) per day picking tea leaves.