The processing of tea has been highly mechanized. Here we see an Assamese tea factory in November 2001. Only parts of the factory are working as it is a Sunday. The tea is first dried and then crushed in huge machines. Then it is cut, torn and curled in a special machine to give it a fuller flavour. Much of the machinery is old and was made in Britain before the Second World War.

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