Maa Gosani Debi Tea Plantation

Down in Mynaguri, our place, Maa Gosani Debi Tea Plantation, sits pretty close to National Highway 31. If you’re driving down that way in the Jalpaiguri district, you can’t really miss the turn-off. It’s a big patch of green land and there is always something to do, no matter the season. The highway noise is just part of the background here, with trucks and buses going past all day and night. We have people out in the fields a lot, checking on the bushes and making sure things are growing like they should. It is hard work, especially when the weather gets hot or the rain starts pouring down, but we are used to it by now. The soil here seems to like the tea, so we just keep at it. We don’t have a big office or anything, just a small space to keep our records and handle the daily bits of business. Most of the people working here live nearby in the district, so it feels like a big family most of the time. We aren’t trying to be the biggest plantation out there, we just want to keep the plants healthy and get the work done. Sometimes the mist hangs low over the rows in the morning and it looks quite nice, though we’re usually too busy to stop and look for long. It is just a regular life of planting and harvesting for us.