Pluck like an eagle: Lychee plucking in Dehradun

From the archive record

Perched atop a tree on its topmost branches, an expert Lychee plucker picks out the best lychees of the season and throws them down where they are gathered and taken to 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 bes