Limited to Hunger
By- Manashjyoti Dutta | Date- April 27, 2011
A woman tea worker displays newly grown tea leaves after plucking at the Krishna Bihari Tea Garden in Sivasagar, Assam on 27 April 2011. Assam and neighboring states account for more than 70 percent of the more than 1 million tons produced by India’s $1.5 billion tea industry. The tea plantations employ nearly 3 million people, mostly women, in jobs that pay about $1.50 a day, plus free housing and subsidized food. Most of the workers are illiterate.
Women tea workers pluck tea leaves at the Krishna Bihari Tea Garden in Sivasagar, Assam on 27 April 2011. Assam and neighboring states account for more than 70 percent of the more than 1 million tons produced by India’s $1.5 billion tea industry. The tea plantations employ nearly 3 million people, mostly women, in jobs that pay about $1.50 a day, plus free housing and subsidized food. Most of the workers are illiterate.
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