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How long can an Assam tea plant remain economically productive with pruning and plucking?

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Neatly planted rows of green tea bushes stretch across rolling fields with Mount Fuji, capped with snow, rising in the background in Japan. — tea Rows of tea (Camellia sinensis) growing in Japan, with Mount Fuji in the background.

With regular pruning and plucking, the Assam tea plant has an economic life of 40 years.1