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Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Female tea garden workers pluck tea leaves at Dagapur Tea Garden near Siliguri, India, on July 4, 2025. Dressed in traditional clothing and carrying baskets, they work under the morning sun amid lush plantations. The Siliguri region, in the Himalayan foothills, is known for tea production that supports local livelihoods and India’s export economy. Despite their crucial role, tea workers often face low wages and tough conditions, highlighting ongoing calls for labor reform. Photo by Diptendu Dutta/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Female tea garden workers pluck tea leaves at Dagapur Tea Garden near Siliguri, India, on July 4, 2025. Dressed in traditional clothing and carrying baskets, they work under the morning sun amid lush plantations. The Siliguri region, in the Himalayan foothills, is known for tea production that supports local livelihoods and India’s export economy. Despite their crucial role, tea workers often face low wages and tough conditions, highlighting ongoing calls for labor reform. Photo by Diptendu Dutta/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Women Pluck Tea Leaves in Siliguri - India

Two female workers pluck tea leaves at Dagapur Tea Garden near Siliguri, India, on July 4, 2025. Dressed in traditional attire, they work under the morning sun in the lush plantations. The region is known for its tea production, though workers often face low wages and tough conditions. Photo by Diptendu Dutta/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Tea Garden Workers - India

Workers on a truck loaded with green sacks of freshly plucked tea leaves 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A tea worker stands near a weighing scale at a garden 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A tea worker stands near a weighing scale at a garden 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

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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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A tea garden worker plucks tea leaves at a plantation in Golaghat, Assam, India on August 9, 2025. Assam’s tea gardens employ nearly a million workers, mostly from tribal communities, across 850 estates, producing more than half of India’s total tea output in an industry that is 172 years old. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers gather around filled sacks of tea leaves at a collection point 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers carry large sacks of freshly plucked leaves on their heads 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A tea worker stands near a weighing scale at a garden 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A tea garden worker plucks tea leaves at a plantation in Golaghat, Assam, India on August 9, 2025. Assam’s tea gardens employ nearly a million workers, mostly from tribal communities, across 850 estates, producing more than half of India’s total tea output in an industry that is 172 years old. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A tea garden worker plucks tea leaves at a plantation in Golaghat, Assam, India on August 9, 2025. Assam’s tea gardens employ nearly a million workers, mostly from tribal communities, across 850 estates, producing more than half of India’s total tea output in an industry that is 172 years old. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A tea garden worker plucks tea leaves at a plantation in Golaghat, Assam, India on August 9, 2025. Assam’s tea gardens employ nearly a million workers, mostly from tribal communities, across 850 estates, producing more than half of India’s total tea output in an industry that is 172 years old. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Tea Garden Workers - India

Women sort tea leaves into large sacks at a collection point 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

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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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

Women sort tea leaves into large sacks at a collection point 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A worker places a sack of tea leaves onto a weighing scale 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A tea worker stands near a weighing scale at a garden 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers pluck 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers gather around filled sacks of tea leaves at a collection point 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

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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

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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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

Tea garden workers carry large sacks of freshly plucked leaves on their heads 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

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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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A worker places a sack of tea leaves onto a weighing scale 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

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Tea Garden Workers - India

A worker loads green sacks of tea leaves onto a truck 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

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Jasmine Flower Industry in Guangxi - China

Workers produce jasmine tea at a tea plant in Hengzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on July 31, 2025. Hengzhou, dubbed the "hometown of jasmine in China," is home to some 340,000 jasmine flower farmers and over 180,000 mu (12,000 hectares) of jasmine fields. In recent years, the city has promoted the development of a whole industrial chain covering jasmine planting, processing and cultural tourism. Photo by Zhang Ailin/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mount Fanjing Matcha Industry - China

Workers pack matcha powder at a tea industrial park in Jiangkou County of Tongren, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on April 14, 2025. Located at the foot of Mount Fanjing, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Jiangkou County is a powerhouse in the world's matcha industry. The county boasts over 10,000 hectares of tea plantations, nearly a fifth of which are dedicated to matcha production. In 2024, Jiangkou County produced more than 1,200 tonnes of matcha with a total output value of 350 million yuan (about 48.02 million U.S. dollars). The local matcha products have been exported to more than 40 overseas markets. Experts and agronomists believe that Guizhou, located on a plateau, possesses geographical and climatic advantages such as high altitude, low latitude, abundant fog and limited sunlight ideal for growing tea. Therefore, tea produced in this area is green, ecological and organic. Photo by Yang Wenbin/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

Tea garden workers walk through rows of bushes with baskets on their backs in Nagaon, India on April 9, 2025. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

A child sleeps inside a red cloth hammock tied between two trees in a tea garden in Nagaon, India on April 9, 2025. The scarf is used to collect tea leaves and now serves as a makeshift cradle for a plantation worker’s child. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

A woman sits next to a red cloth hammock holding a child in Nagaon, India on April 9, 2025. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

Tea garden workers walk through rows of bushes with baskets on their backs in Nagaon, India on April 9, 2025. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

Indian female tea garden labourer drinks water at a tea garden in Nagaon, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, on April 9, 2025. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

Tea garden workers walk through rows of bushes with baskets on their backs in Nagaon, India on April 9, 2025. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

A woman plucks leaves among the bushes in a tea garden in Nagaon, India on April 9, 2025. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

Women gather near water containers under trees in Nagaon, India on April 9, 2025. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

Tea garden workers walk along a narrow path carrying sacks on their heads in Nagaon, India on April 9, 2025. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Women Workers Of Tea Garden - India

A worker’s hand reaches through the leaves to pluck tea in Nagaon, India on April 9, 2025. Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Tea Harvest Saison - China

Workers process Juyan tea leaves at a tea company in Jinhua City of east China's Zhejiang Province, March 31, 2025. The Wuzhou (ancient name of Jinhua) Juyan tea has recently entered its harvest season. The making technique of the Juyan tea, together with that of Longjing tea (West Lake Dragon Well tea), Changxing Zisun tea (a tea variety originated from Changxing County) and some other reputed tea varieties in Zhejiang, was inscribed on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2022. In recent years, with joint efforts from leading tea companies and Juyan tea making technique inheritors, Juyan tea has quickened its pace of development and moved towards standardized production and industrialization. The development of Juyan tea industry has promoted local eco-tourism and helped increase incomes of local farmers. Photo by Xinhua/Xu Yu/ABACAPRESS.COM

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INDIA-ASSAM-NAGAON-TEA GARDEN-WORKERS

(240801) -- ASSAM, Aug. 1, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker carries newly picked tea leaves at a tea garden in Nagaon district of India's northeastern state of Assam, Aug. 1, 2024. (Str/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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INDIA-ASSAM-NAGAON-TEA GARDEN-WORKERS

(240801) -- ASSAM, Aug. 1, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Workers carry newly picked tea leaves at a tea garden in Nagaon district of India's northeastern state of Assam, Aug. 1, 2024. (Str/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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INDIA-ASSAM-NAGAON-TEA GARDEN-WORKERS

(240801) -- ASSAM, Aug. 1, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Workers carry newly picked tea leaves at a tea garden in Nagaon district of India's northeastern state of Assam, Aug. 1, 2024. (Str/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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INDIA-ASSAM-NAGAON-TEA GARDEN-WORKERS

(240801) -- ASSAM, Aug. 1, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker picks tea leaves at a tea garden in Nagaon district of India's northeastern state of Assam, Aug. 1, 2024. (Str/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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An Agricultural Beverage Production Line in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - JULY 27, 2024 - Workers check the operation of canned production of apricot peel tea cans at an agricultural beverage production line in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, July 27, 2024.

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An Agricultural Beverage Production Line in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - JULY 27, 2024 - Workers check the operation of canned production of apricot peel tea cans at an agricultural beverage production line in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, July 27, 2024.