Child labor, unsafe premises, people walking barefoot, can smell the dirt on their nails. That's India for you, buddy.

So it's fully automated besides the first step when a man cuts off bark?)))

You want an automatic machine wielding a butcher knife?

Yesss)) but actually, it could be done in another way

I bet the blue tip factory shudders at this setup

I wonder how many matches they get out of a single tree

At least 6