Cooperative or Farmers' Association?
Both are in Lugu and both sell 'Dong Ding competition tea' under their own seals and grade names. They are different organisations.
鹿谷乡冻顶茶叶生产合作社鹿谷鄉凍頂茶葉生產合作社
Dong Ding Tea Production Cooperative
Lugu growers' cooperative that runs its own Dong Ding oolong contests, separate from the Farmers' Association, and fought packaging fakes in 2014.
- Kind
- cooperative
- Based in
- Lugu Township
- Brands
- 凍頂茶葉生產合作社比賽茶 (cooperative competition tea)
- 一心二葉 (cooperative logo)
Also sold or written as 5#
Chinese variants
- 凍頂茶葉生產合作社Dong Ding — tea production cooperative
- 凍頂合作社Dong Ding — cooperative
Translations and trade names
- Dongding Tea Cooperative
- Lugu
Russian
- Лугу
Names and ambiguities#
Notes#
The cooperative holds its own spring and winter competitions; in the winter 2025 contest it awarded top prizes in an oolong class and a new-cultivar class, with prize-giving on the same day as the Farmers' Association. In 2014 it reported counterfeits of its packaging on sale in Mainland China, spreading from Guangdong to Shandong, that copied everything except its 一心二葉 logo; it put its loss at over 100 million and said genuine sales had fallen by about a fifth. It responded with watermarked canisters and colour-shifting labels carrying four-digit serial numbers. Its grades include the 五朵梅花 (five plum blossoms) tier. Founding year not found.