Munnar, thousands of hectares of tea plantations in the middle of nature

ArabiaWeather.com - Sinan Khalaf - India is considered the second source of tea in the world, where this trade began and flourished through a number of bushes that were brought from Chinese lands and cultivated in Indian lands, to then transform thousands of hectares and within a few years into private farms This plant is loved by many.

The ecological and climatic system of India is very suitable for the growth of tea, due to its warm weather, the nature of its tropical climate, and the abundance of rain for long periods of the year.

As for how the crop is brought in, it is done by collecting tea leaves once every 15 days, and women work under the sun to collect fresh leaves and collect them in special baskets prepared for that. At the end of the day, women collect about 25 to 30 kilos of tea leaves in exchange for A wage not exceeding $3 a day. Then the leaves are transferred to nearby factories for processing.