date:Oct 15, 2012
ers use giant plastic scissors known as plucking shears to remove leaves from bushes. Shear plucking - less labor-intensive than hand plucking - tends to snip off more than the two leaves and a bud preferred by tea connoisseurs.
Job Kihara, a manager who has spent more than 20 years in the industry, says that although tea garden work can be grueling, the real problem is the mental attitude of laborers.
Now getting labor and convincing somebody to come in the morning when it is wet, you are out