Sentence examples for tea plucking from inspiring English sources

Tea plucking shuts down from December to March in Darjeeling.

There's a rough annual cycle now; we plant around 6,000 new bushes every October, then tea plucking begins in spring.

We chatted about our families in a pidgin of English, Hindi and Nepali as Pushpa brought up a tray of biscuits with tea plucked from the nearby Darjeeling hills.

Reduction in crop yield after pruning reduces the income of the employees and families as their wages are mainly dependent on the quantity of tea plucked.

For example, because female workers are paid on a piece-rate basis (by weight of tea leaves plucked), women who pluck large amounts of leaves and have higher earnings are likely to be in good physical condition.

In March and April, the peak tea-plucking season, Mr. Zha Ge can make up to $1,000 a month, far more than what the factory workers in eastern Chinese cities make stitching blue jeans and assembling iPods.

On a recent December afternoon, K. Tilgowthey and about 15 other women were plucking tea leaves from a hillside in central Sri Lanka as the rain came down.

If you feel moved to text an up-front marriage proposal — feeling 100% confident in Facebook's data scientists' prowess in reading the social media tea leaves and plucking your future life partner out of the mix — its algorithms will probably smile on that though.

#Plucking: Tea leaves and flushes, which includes a terminal bud and two young leaves, are picked from Camellia sinensis bushes typically twice a year during early spring and early summer or late spring.

"Due to global boundaries and the fact that tea is primarily grown in India, Sri Lanka and China, while the huge consumers are US and Europe, the supply chain for the last 200 years was that teas were plucked and exported in bulk taking three to four months.

The innate flavour of the dried tea leaves is determined by the type of cultivar of the tea bush, the quality of the plucked tea leaves, and the manner and quality of the production processing they undergo.