Nepal's Leading Organic Certified Tea Producer Cooperative
With the key objective of transforming the traditional farming practices of the Mountains and hills of Nepal into export-oriented cash-crop production especially Orthodox Tea by converting the subsistence traditional farming and the unused lands into prolific and productive resource.
Transforming Indigenous Farming Practices
Transforming Indigenous Farming Practices is a concept to modernize traditional agricultural methods of indigenous communities while preserving cultural heritage. The aim is to enhance efficiency and sustainability while maintaining unique characteristics. It balances cultural preservation and adaptation to modern agriculture.
We Produce
ORTHODOX TEA
Orthodox tea refers to loose leaf tea produced using traditional (orthodox) methods, which involves plucking, withering, rolling, oxidation/fermentation and drying.
MEDICINAL HERBS
A medicinal plant is any plant which, in one or more of its organs, contains substances that can be used for therapeutic purposes or which are precursors for the synthesis of useful drugs.
RARE SPICES
Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of plants used for flavoring or as a garnish.
Farming, Production and Markets
- Private or public land shall be purchased or leased for long term farming.
- Resource profile shall be compiled of cultivating and farming area and land use potentiality after conduction of soil test, mapping and feasibility study of potential tea plantation areas.
- Establishment of cloning nurseries of tea, medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP) and other high valued cash-crops like spices as per ecological niche altitude, climate and nature of land shall be carried out.
- Establishment of cloning nurseries of tea, medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP) and other high valued cash-crops like spices as per ecological niche altitude, climate and nature of land shall be carried out.
- Importance and priority shall be given to produce Organic Orthodox Tea intensively and extensively by establishing tea factory in potential places.
- Brand, Patent, goodwill and standard quality shall be maintained managing national and international market for the Himalayan Organic Orthodox Tea (HOOT) and efforts to enhance market demand through the effective media and other promotional programs shall be undertaken.
- Importance shall be given & prioritized to identification, production, processing, marketing, consumption, use, study, research, innovation, scientific activities on farm development of local valuable medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP),indigenous spices & cereals and other valued agro-forest products.
- Brand, patent and security code shall be registered and used for managing national and international market of the organic medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP) and spices and efforts to promote demand through the effective media and other promotional programs shall be undertaken.
- Modern professional know-hows, technologies and methods with equipment shall be adopted, developed and utilized with highest potentialities.
- Develop, produce & innovate the livestock, dairy and other agro-products with advanced methods & management.
Research, Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Preference shall be given to scientific exploration, investigation and research by injecting and adopting agri-high tech and knowledge. Highly technical and professional capabilities shall be developed, utilized and applied to make tea production, quality standard and marketing of organic orthodox tea, medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP), spices, indigenous cereal products and other commercial cash crops having more market-worthiness & competitive at the international level.
- Priority shall be preferred to find and achieve new and high valued products, species, varieties through the new research, study and scientific exploration of local indigenous varieties of MAPs, Spices and Orthodox Tea of high mountain altitude.
- Establishment of research, studies and development centers be carried on for Himalayan Organic Orthodox Tea (HOOT) and medicinal & aromatic plants & their products.
- Innovation through development of high-tech nursery, clonal species, hybridization, health friendly food varieties, phytochemical study and their human advantage.
- Livestock and plant protection & promotion activities be prioritized for hygienic & high income bio-business.
Eco-Tourism & Agro-tourism
Develop & enhance Tea Culture, Herbalism & Organic Food Styles.
Arrangements shall be made for open, guided or sponsored trekking, observation tour or educational excursion to the farming plots of the Himalayan Orthodox Tea (HOOT), medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP) and other cash crops plantations, Special beautified area, Estates, Blocks, Spices Gardens, Model nursery and so on shall be organized.
Different agro-carnivals and events
Tea Festival, Farmer's Fete, Cash Crop Gala, Agro-tourism Festival, Special products show, Market exhibition, Model farms, Indigenous product success demonstration, so on-shall be managed to happen.
Developing and prioritizing the identification of tourist destinations
Cultural Hub, Entertainment Centers, Local Arts and Agro-museums, Indigenous handicrafts & amusement Points, Agro-parks, Home-stay popularization, Picnic spots, Educational & information centers, Local traditional and herbal/medicinal markets Expo, Phyto Treatment, Traditional show and treatment centers, Samanistic Treat based on indigenous values of naturalism and herbal healing and Ethno-medicinal Culture.