Tea Garden Operations Guides
Plain-language guides for estate owners, managers, and office staff. Written from tea garden work, not software jargon. Built and supported by Sarbani Associates, Bagdogra, Siliguri.
Field Operations
7 min read
How to Stop Proxy Attendance in Tea Gardens
Why paper muster rolls leak hazira, why fingerprint machines fail in the field, and how offline face attendance helps stop proxy attendance.
Field Operations
6 min read
How Face Attendance Works in a Tea Garden
The full verification flow: face quality, liveness checks, retries, manual fallback, and what the office sees after sync.
Plucking Operations
6 min read
Smart Leaf Weighing in Tea Gardens
How a Bluetooth scale and verified worker identity put net leaf weight on the same record, without handwritten slips.
Reliability
6 min read
Tea Garden Attendance Without Internet
What the field app does with no network: local saving, pending and failed record states, and sync when connectivity returns.
Field to Office
6 min read
How Mobile Attendance Reaches the Estate Office
The sync path step by step: capture, upload, office review, correction, finalization, and export for payroll.
Implementation
6 min read
Worker Face Enrollment Guide for Tea Gardens
How to enroll and re-enroll workers, handle photo quality, and keep face templates healthy across the estate.
Implementation
7 min read
Attendance and Weighing Rollout Checklist
A section-by-section checklist for rolling out face attendance and smart weighing without stopping garden work.
Implementation
7 min read
Paper Register to Face Attendance
A migration guide for moving from muster books to verified attendance, including the parallel run and data handover.
Field Operations
6 min read
Punch Attendance, Split Shifts and Overtime
How repeated time-in and time-out records cover breaks, split shifts, factory hours, and overtime work.
Plucking Operations
6 min read
Rainfall Deductions and Fine Leaf Checks
How wet leaf slabs and fine leaf counts are applied to plucking records, and why recording them together ends disputes.
Plucking Operations
5 min read
Daily Plucking Task Assignment
How the office sends section targets to field devices each morning, and how pro-rata tasks are applied.
Payroll
8 min read
How Tea Garden Hazira is Calculated
Base task norms, over-kilo incentives, wet leaf deductions, and statutory deductions, with a worked example.
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