tea pickers
Plantation field workers
Tea pickers are workers who harvest tea leaves by hand, typically plucking the youngest leaves and buds from tea plants.
The work is labor-intensive and often done by women in tea-growing regions like India, Sri Lanka, and China.
The tea pickers moved through the hillside plantation at dawn.
The term sometimes carries connotations of colonial-era labor exploitation.
- harvestGathering mature crops
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- leavesTree's photosynthetic organs
- basketsWoven carrying containers
- hillsideSloping terrain face
plucking · Ceylon · Assam · Darjeeling · workers · green · fields · misty · morning · early morning · aprons · fingers · rows · slopes · labor · low wages · bushes · terraces
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- tea industrywithering, drying, firing, first flush, Darjeeling
- Pickers
- Darjeeling-SikkimDarjeeling, hill station, first flush, Happy Valley, momos
- labor systemsbonded labor, chattel slavery, child labor, compulsory labor, contract labor