Tea Plants have no value without Plucking. Any cultivation is useless without harvesting. Plucking Tea Leaf from the tea bushes is the continuous harvesting that the entire Tea Industry depends upon.

In the fascinating process of harvesting, only the top one to two inches of the mature bushes are harvested. TWO LEAVES AND A BUD or flushes as they are called are the ideal harvest for manufacturing a quality end product.

A plant will grow a new flush every seven to ten days during the growing season. If proper cycle are not maintained the tea factory receives unacceptable standards of leaf for quality manufacture.

A tea bush will grow into a tree if left undisturbed, but cultivated bushes are pruned to waist height for ease of harvesting the green leaves.

• 'Two leaves and the bud’ is the description given in a nutshell. The two leaves must be tender, the bud unopened and the stalk immature. This is called ‘fine picking’ and makes the perfect Tea in the Factory on completion of the manufacture process.

• The harvested leaf is taken to the roadside at intervals for eliminating stalk and extraneous matter before weighing. It is then transported to the factory in the quickest possible time.