Design methodology for improvements to the tea-leaf plucking aid


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Creator/Artist: Gourab Saha

Category: Product Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2013-2015

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Purba Joshi & Prof. G. G. Ray


Detailed Description

At present, India is the second-largest producer of tea in the world and accounts for the employment of more than 2 million people. At the bottom of the tea industry pyramid are the tea plantation workers. who are prone to various occupational hazards, this project attempts to understand and address some of the core issues associated with handplucking tea leaves. The iterative industrial design process has been utilised in an effort to bring about a meaningful design intervention into the lives of tea-leaf pluckers.