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Soaring temperatures, drought slash Bangladesh tea harvest Tea pickers stressed in normally mild, rainy region Heat hits local incomes as tourists stay away By Mosabber Hossain SREEMANGAL, Bangladesh, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - P hul Kumari has picked tea in northeastern Bangladesh for three decades, but the 45-year-old says she has never experienced heat and drought like that during this harvest season. "It's too hot and I can't continue working," she said, as she took a break for water at the tea estate where she labours in Sreemangal, south of the city of Sylhet.