Taiwan Tea Harvest
Taiwan Tea Harvest
NO AUDIO Taiwan marks the 100th anniversary of the export of tea with a bumper crop. Tea has flourished here for over one thousand years. The refining process takes the leaves from the field to the factory where they're dried, massaged, fermented, sifted, refined and packed. MS Women working in flourishing fields of tea leaves. They are wearing coolie hats as they pick tea leaves and put them into baskets that they wear on their backs. Women harvesting tea leaves. CU of a younger girl harvesting tea. The women work their way through the fields and bring their leaves to an open bed truck for a man to dump them into.. Exterior shot of an operational tea factory for the leaves to be processed. MS - Women sorting through thousands of tea leafs. Men operate machines that grind and mash the tea leaves. CU of the machine at work grinding the leaves in a circular motion. MS -Women shoveling up almost dried tea leaves into mechanically operated bins. The machines shake the ground tea leaves in barrels and baskets fot the women to move. MS of a room full of large sealed bags and open grounds of tea.