Expert Plucker: Lychee plucking in Uttarakhand

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An expert plucker on the very top branches of a Lychee tree plucks and picks the best Lychees of the season to be sold in the market. Lychees are extensively grown in China, and also elsewhere in Brazil, South-East Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, southern Japan, and more recently in California, Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, Hawaii, Texas, Florida,[9] the wetter areas of eastern Australia and sub-tropical regions of South Africa, Israel and also in the states of Sinaloa and San Luis Potosí (specifically, in La Huasteca) in Mexico. They require a warm subtropical to tropical climate that is cool but also frost-free or with only very slight winter frosts not below -4°C, and with high summer heat, rainfall, and humidity. Growth is best on well-drained, slightly acidic soils rich i