If you're the type who often plants trees and forgets about them (we know ourselves), then it's going to be hard to keep up with pests, especially the tiny ones like scales. Scales are sap-sucking ...
Here, for four months, they tap palm trees for sap and boil it to make liquid jaggery. This is the only labour they are sure of, in the year. As the temperature drops to 10 degrees Celsuis ...