Tea pickers clipping the tea bushes daily and collecting leaves in the tea plantation in the upland foothills near Vandiperiya, India

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Migrant Tea pickers are brought in from next region in Southern India ( Tamilnadu District ) to pick tea on the foot hills of the mountain ranges that separates their regions, as Keralians have become so prosperous that they choose not to do this work now

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Location: Tea Plantation in the foothills near Vandiperiya of Idukki district ,Kerala . India
Photo credit: © Gary Blake / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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