Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Several female tea workers hold umbrellas while plucking leaves at Dagapur Tea Garden near Siliguri, India, on July 4, 2025. They work under the sun in lush green fields, blending tradition with the demanding daily routine of tea harvesting. Photo by Diptendu Dutta/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Several female tea workers hold umbrellas while plucking leaves at Dagapur Tea Garden near Siliguri, India, on July 4, 2025. They work under the sun in lush green fields, blending tradition with the demanding daily routine of tea harvesting. Photo by Diptendu Dutta/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Several female tea workers hold umbrellas while plucking leaves at Dagapur Tea Garden near Siliguri, India, on July 4, 2025. They work under the sun in lush green fields, blending tradition with the demanding daily routine of tea harvesting. Photo by Diptendu Dutta/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Several female tea workers hold umbrellas while plucking leaves at Dagapur Tea Garden near Siliguri, India, on July 4, 2025. They work under the sun in lush green fields, blending tradition with the demanding daily routine of tea harvesting. Photo by Diptendu Dutta/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers carry baskets while plucking tea leaves at a plantation in Golaghat, Assam, India on August 9, 2025. Assam’s tea gardens, employing nearly a million workers across 850 estates, produce more than half of India’s total tea output in an industry that is over 170 years old, with most workers coming from tribal communities. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers carry baskets while plucking tea leaves at a plantation in Golaghat, Assam, India on August 9, 2025. Assam’s tea gardens, employing nearly a million workers across 850 estates, produce more than half of India’s total tea output in an industry that is over 170 years old, with most workers coming from tribal communities. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers carry baskets while plucking tea leaves at a plantation in Golaghat, Assam, India on August 9, 2025. Assam’s tea gardens, employing nearly a million workers across 850 estates, produce more than half of India’s total tea output in an industry that is over 170 years old, with most workers coming from tribal communities. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers carry baskets while plucking tea leaves at a plantation in Golaghat, Assam, India on August 9, 2025. Assam’s tea gardens, employing nearly a million workers across 850 estates, produce more than half of India’s total tea output in an industry that is over 170 years old, with most workers coming from tribal communities. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers carry baskets while plucking tea leaves at a plantation in Golaghat, Assam, India on August 9, 2025. Assam’s tea gardens, employing nearly a million workers across 850 estates, produce more than half of India’s total tea output in an industry that is over 170 years old, with most workers coming from tribal communities. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Cotton Plucking - India

Cotton Plucking - India

Indian Farmers pluck cotton crops in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 10 October 2023. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Spring tea picking starts in China's Yunnan

STORY: Spring tea picking starts in China's Yunnan DATELINE: March 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Jingmai Mountain 2. STANDUP (English): ZHAO ZHIQIN, Xinhua correspondent 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YAN WENFA, Local tea farmer 4. various of the ceremony 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YAN YIKAN, Local villager STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZHAO ZHIQIN, Xinhua correspondent "As spring has come, the farmers in Jingmai Mountain once again threw themselves into the busy tea plucking work. Today, we are here at the Jingmai Mountain Spring Tea Harvest Festival, to see how the local people start one of their most important activities in a year. Let's go find out." Before harvesting the tea plants, local people held a ceremony to show reverence to nature and their ancestors. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YAN WENFA, Local tea farmer "We tell the deceased old people that we are harvesting new tea leaves, and then thank our ancestors for leaving the tea trees for us to

Thai woman makes good living by plucking gray hairs

Thai woman makes good living by plucking gray hairs

BANGKOK, Thailand - Woranan Dodocha plucks gray hairs from a customer at a store in Bangkok on April 21, 2011. Customers seeking to rid of their gray hairs without using dyes find the answer at Woranan's store, where she uses a comb and tweezers to pull them out one by one.

CHINA-ANHUI-HEFEI-VEGETABLES-SUPPLY (CN)

CHINA-ANHUI-HEFEI-VEGETABLES-SUPPLY (CN)

(221204) -- HEFEI, Dec. 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Dec. 3, 2022 shows vegetable growers plucking vegetables at a vegetable plantation base in Gaodian Township of Feixi County, Hefei City, east China's Anhui Province. Vegetable growers here have been busy with harvesting vegetables to supply the market amid recent cold waves. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)

(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-NAGQU-BIRU-CATERPILLAR FUNGI-HARVEST (CN)

(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-NAGQU-BIRU-CATERPILLAR FUNGI-HARVEST (CN)

(220531) -- NAGQU, May 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Herdsmen hunt down caterpillar fungus in Biru County of Nagqu, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 25, 2022. On the prairie of over 4,700 meters above sea level in Biru County, herdsmen are busy hunting down caterpillar fungus at the harvest time. Biru County is a key site of yielding caterpillar fungus, an expensive ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. Found only at high altitudes, the fungus, known in China as "winter-worm summer-grass," is said to be effective in boosting the immune system. The caterpillar fungus harvest time lasts 45 days. For local herdsmen, collecting this precious fungus offers them seasonal jobs and increases their income. Trekking on the alpine ground, searching for the tiny caterpillar fungus as small as an apple stalk, fungus diggers must brave harsh weather conditions from sunrise till sunset. Fungus diggers use an ice pick to prod the earth and dig a hole about 10 centimeters deep. After plucking the fung

(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-NAGQU-BIRU-CATERPILLAR FUNGI-HARVEST (CN)

(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-NAGQU-BIRU-CATERPILLAR FUNGI-HARVEST (CN)

(220531) -- NAGQU, May 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A caterpillar fungus sprouts on the grassland in Biru County of Nagqu, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 25, 2022. On the prairie of over 4,700 meters above sea level in Biru County, herdsmen are busy hunting down caterpillar fungus at the harvest time. Biru County is a key site of yielding caterpillar fungus, an expensive ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. Found only at high altitudes, the fungus, known in China as "winter-worm summer-grass," is said to be effective in boosting the immune system. The caterpillar fungus harvest time lasts 45 days. For local herdsmen, collecting this precious fungus offers them seasonal jobs and increases their income. Trekking on the alpine ground, searching for the tiny caterpillar fungus as small as an apple stalk, fungus diggers must brave harsh weather conditions from sunrise till sunset. Fungus diggers use an ice pick to prod the earth and dig a hole about 10 centimeters deep. After plucking

A Japanese Koto player

A Japanese Koto player

A Japanese Koto player. A Koto is a type of Zither with 13 strings, played by plucking the strings with ivory plectrums attached to the fingers. Date: 1932

A woman playing the shamisen

A woman playing the shamisen

A woman is plucking a shamisen lute in a small room. This setting is artificial.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐74‐0]

A woman playing the shamisen

A woman playing the shamisen

An oval-faced woman is sitting on a carpet, plucking a shamisen lute. An iron kettle is on a heater. A small tea cup cabinet is visible behind. The photograph almost echoes with the sound of her love ballad.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number58‐28‐2]

A woman playing the gekkin (a stringed instrament of Chinese origin)

A woman playing the gekkin (a stringed instrament of Chinese origin)

The word gekkin (moon koto) originates from the shape of the full moon and the sound similar to that of the koto. It is a Chinese string instrument that appeared in the Sung dynasty. It was introduced to Japan during the Edo era and gained popularity during the Meiji era. The instrument is played by plucking the strings with a plectrum.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐5‐0]

Thai woman makes good living by plucking gray hairs

Thai woman makes good living by plucking gray hairs

BANGKOK, Thailand - Woranan Dodocha plucks gray hairs from a customer at a store in Bangkok on April 21, 2011. Customers seeking to rid of their gray hairs without using dyes find the answer at Woranan's store, where she uses a comb and tweezers to pull them out one by one. (Kyodo)