Indian tea garden workers pluck tea leaves - Assam

Tea workers plucking tea at a tea estate in Assam . The women workers pluck and put the tea leaves in a basket, which they carry by their heads. The North East Indian state of Assam is renowned for its tea. The traditions of the old estates, including hand-picking. The Tea industry in Assam is about 170 years old. It occupies an important place and plays a very special role in the State economy in particular. Assam offer freshly loose tea leafs. Assam is the biggest producer of quality tea in India, contributing about 55 per cent to country‘s total tea production. Assam tea industry dependent on about two million labourers almost all of whom are the descendents of those who were brought to Assam as slaves first by the East India Company and later by the British rulers and entrepreneurs from 1830‘s through 1920‘s, mostly from the Santhal Parganas district of Bihar. The descendents of these slaves are known as tea garden tribes or community. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience! Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com