Freshly harvested tea leaves being weighed at Sangsua in Assam

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Women pick tea leaves and then have it weighed and get paid by how much they pick. Women are the primary workers at the plantations. Tea pluckers weigh the leaves they have harvested at the Sangsua Tea Estate plantation in Assam. Pluckers have a target to full their basket. They earn around Rs. 120 per day. 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 collection comprises of 100, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. 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