and on the man just three plantation. it would. it also has a number of good standard sales to its name a supervisor indicates where the workers have used pastor science florence min wants to find out how heavily contaminated the plants are. so he takes samples. not just here but also from four other tier states in assam. in germany for tea leaves samples were tested for pesticide content along with samples of imported tea brands sold in german stores. to avoid forced of all week salmon tea picked on location in india all of the samples contain pesticides one pesticide even exceeded permitted limits then we examined supermarket here too
lawrence min has to seize his chance almost all families living on a certified plantation are facing the same problem. the man hearts built by the workers are in an appalling state of disrepair most don t have electricity or functioning toilets there s no clean drinking water and yet it is the tea estate that is responsible for meeting those basic needs that is the law in india. today said dr but still this is somebody. in the serene and there is no current it is very dangerous with a lot of snakes all around we see the sweet the base of the thought i let you have to beat the behind which is open which is a breathing release of the mosque in the malaria the duty of the management to clean the toilet all the family here own they use these.
employees receive bicycles as a reward the remaining one thousand two hundred seventy five go empty handed. and yet the tears state is like one big family according to a manager clear the mayor the entire time i go out the. we need the love of the workers we talk about our t. we talk about our views. and you see a lot of smiling faces now and i feel to get them a medic in the car to get their own way in the car we need the love of. our work inside the. magic vision. well it sounds good but when the manager is out of earshot welker s thomas a very different story though the tongue going to go on plantation has a clutch of certification labels life in his heart for fear of losing their jobs
if. the not ha ha b. plantation has been awarded seals of approval by the rainforest alliance and u.t. sad yet the water here is also much too dirty to drink. other people here don t have any choice that constructed filters out of metal and sand that such contraptions don t eliminate hazardous germs. bridge on plantation is located just a few kilometers away it s t. is also certified by the rainforest alliance. the workers here spray pesticide on the crops without protective clothing and without masks. we were promised protective equipment a long time ago but we still haven t received any. chemicals enter the workers bodies through their skin and lungs the possible effects cases of acute poisoning
a kumar dattch can confirm that he is head of medicine at assam medical college and hospital in dibrugarh which treats the workers and their families. more children die in india than in any other parts of the world and the same is true in that the that and this is. what i as i said is the primary cause and sanitation is another cause is the garden community the children who are born are it darted in their growth and poorly nor east and as i said the infant market is. a plantation that boasts several good standard cereals yet whether workers and their families live in inhumane conditions. even though the certification programs promise higher wages social justice and