Picking Tea in Kotagiri
Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 1:50PM
[chuck] in Kotagiri, Nilgiri Hills, Other, tea

Manicured tea estates outside of Kotagiri (see Kotagiri Tea Estates and Kotagiri Landscape) in Tamil Nadu, India being harvested by teams of local women. Their yellow bags are full of hundreds and hundreds of Camellia sinensis assamica terminal leaf pairs and associated leaf buds. Click here for a nice video clip of women picking tea in Assam, India.

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