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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 fro
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