Highlights of a few eco-friendly cultivation practices and
some successful tea growers who're following them! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6npVZreHms
Gobin Hazarika
Hornby Island Tea uses Gobin's hand-made black tea in their
I AM ALIVE blend |
Shyam Saikia
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Tenzing Bodosa
The Earl Grey tea sold by Level Ground Trading includes black tea grown at Tenzing's garden.
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Assam's small tea growers in the news - Pabitra Bora!
Check out this inspiring short video highlighting Fertile Ground's work with tea growers and farmers in Assam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gys6S-pl8Ak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gys6S-pl8Ak
Thanks to UK filmmakers and world travellers Tom & Amy Skelton-Hiller for
producing this film and helping out at the organic demonstration garden in Digboi, Assam!
producing this film and helping out at the organic demonstration garden in Digboi, Assam!
Congratulations to our good friends and small tea growers
Gobin Hazarika, Tenzing Bodosa and Bijit Basumatary
- outstanding organic growers from Assam who were invited to take part in
an International food expo in Hong Kong!
Gobin Hazarika, Tenzing Bodosa and Bijit Basumatary
- outstanding organic growers from Assam who were invited to take part in
an International food expo in Hong Kong!
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The Small Tea Coop is proud to have supported development of
the association for Organic Small Tea Growers in North East India!
Congratulations to everyone who helped make this happen!
For more information, visit organicsmallteagrowers.weebly.com
the association for Organic Small Tea Growers in North East India!
Congratulations to everyone who helped make this happen!
For more information, visit organicsmallteagrowers.weebly.com
Meeting Highlights Important Role of Small Tea Growers
in India's Growing Organic Tea Industry
in India's Growing Organic Tea Industry
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Organic Tea Production
from the Assam Tribune, 2013-12-22 Guwahati, Dec. 22 Secretary of the Inter-Governmental Group on Tea of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Kaison Chang, participated recently in the discourse on small tea growers of Assam, organized by a Canadian NGO "Fertile Ground" at Digboi. Chang rightly observed that the trend of development in tea production not only in Assam but also in India as a whole is towards a smallscale growth orientation. (read more.......) |
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Kaison Chang, Secretary of FAO's Inter-Governmental Group on Tea at a meeting of small tea growers in Assam. Also at the head table were organic tea afficionado Binod Saharia,
Harki Sidhu Singh (Rainforest Alliance), Barun Barpujari (IOCL-AOD), G. Boriah (Tea Board)
and Joelle Katto-Andrighetto (IFOAM).
Harki Sidhu Singh (Rainforest Alliance), Barun Barpujari (IOCL-AOD), G. Boriah (Tea Board)
and Joelle Katto-Andrighetto (IFOAM).
Arzeena Hamir and Peggy provided samples of our fabulous iced chai to hundreds of people at Flavours - the North Island Gourmet Picnic!
A great way to celebrate the best in local and global foods!
A great way to celebrate the best in local and global foods!
Support for organic tea cultivation and our work with small-scale growers in the Assam news! For a larger view of the story, clip on the images below.........
SUMMER UPDATE!
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Fertile Ground and the small tea co-op wish to thank filmmaker Tom Heineman for producing this video. Since its release in 2019, working conditions in many of the large, corporate-owned tea plantations have improved, but there's still room for improvement.
