Rejuvenation pruning of tea plants in Small tea growers garden... Blade on tea bush...

Due to wrong pruning practices followed by small tea growers since planting, in most STG gardens the bushes developed numerous knots, frame formation is poor, poor branch orientation... these lead to lower green leaf production in 15-20 years old plants... Then the STGs call the pruning persons from nearby big tea gardens and do this as per their advice.. those people also lack the knowledge of proper pruning to be followed in respective plants. They have the tendency of heavy cut... But there are so many corrective pruning practices which can be practiced instead of Rejuvenation pruning in such low aged plants. Rejuvenation or height reduction pruning generally followed in more than 50 years old bushes for many reasons...
While visiting fields I came across this pruning operation in a small tea growers garden at North Bengal.
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