FEATURE-Bangladesh tea workers struggle as heat and drought

FEATURE-Bangladesh tea workers struggle as heat and drought scorch fields

* 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.

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