TEA GROWERS LOOK FOR WORKERS TO HARVEST TEA BY OFFERING 1000 DOLLARS...
Tea growers in the eastern Black Sea region are desperately looking for workers to harvest tea on their land plants after authorities have introduced curbs on travel and limited entrance to and exit from the cities. Potential tea plantation workers are offered a salary of 6,900 Turkish Liras (around 1000 dollars) and all social security benefits. Recently, the officials restricted movements of some 100,000 people, who live in Istanbul but want to travel to the Black Sea provinces, to harvest tea in their land plots there, in a bid to curb the coronavirus spread in the region. On top of that, this year some 40,000 foreign workers will not be able to come to the region to pick tea as borders are closed. Special “harvest commissions,” under the supervision of the district governors, will be set up in those Black Sea regions to ensure that the tea harvest is not interrupted this year. In the province of Rize , the municipalities, the chambers of agriculture and growers’ asso...