Woman tea worker having lunch at a tea plantation near Sreemangal, Sylhet,...

Tea plantation, Sreemangal (Srimangal); May 2, 2013; Woman tea worker having lunch at a tea plantation near Sreemangal, Sylhet, Bangladesh. It is said that the tea-workers are the most oppressed among all types of workers in Bangladesh. Tea-worker women also have to endure patriarchal repression. In Bangladesh, tea production increased, growth has increased. But the life of the workers remained the same as the British era. The Sreemangal Tea Estates form a green carpet on the sloping hills. A large portion of world's highest quality tea is grown and exported from Sreemangal, hence it is called the tea capital. 3% of the world's tea production is manufactured in Bangladesh.

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