The document discusses Gobin Hazarika, a small tea farmer in India who owns Meen Mohan Tea garden. Hazarika has been successful in exporting his organic tea to Canada, where it has become a leading brand. He produces the tea using traditional methods without machinery or chemicals. Hazarika aims to establish his tea in global markets, having already entered Canada, and wants to next enter the European market due to high quality standards. His organic tea garden attracts Canadian consumers and he hopes to expand production to meet growing demand.
Tea Industry has seen a lot of changes in the past few years.
India, lost its first position as tea producer to China for the first time, in the last 110 years. www.unitedworld.edu.in
Tea Blending and Packaging Industry. Blending and Packaging of Tea
Tea is an important beverage in India. Simply, tea as a refreshing energy booster. Additionally, the tea comes with several health benefits too. Basically, the antioxidants help to eliminate toxins and free radicals from the blood.
Indian tea is among the finest in the world owing to strong geographical indications, heavy investments in tea processing units, continuous innovation, augmented product mix and strategic market expansion. The main tea-growing regions are in Northeast India (including Assam) and in north Bengal (Darjeeling district and the Dooars region). Tea is also grown on a large scale in the Nilgiris in south India. India is one of the world’s largest consumers of tea, with about three-fourths of the country’s total produce consumed locally.
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Human Resource Management Practices in Tea Gardens of Bangladesh: A Case Stud...Masum Hussain
An attempt has been made in this assignment to understand the human resource management practices of tea gardens in Bangladesh. In fact, human rights of the tea gardeners as a whole are yet to be exposed in our country. This assignment deals with different aspects of human resource management practices of the tea gardeners, focusing on some significant issues of social, economic, political and cultural life of those people. Special attention has been paid on the knowledge of the people regarding gender equity, importance of education, good governance, labor law etc. The assignment also investigates the attitude of mainstream people towards the tea gardeners and the way tea gardeners think of the people of mainstream society. It has been suggested in the assignment that all out efforts must be made to raise awareness among the tea gardeners about human rights and related matters.
Generally, it is assumed that the people working in different tea gardens all over our country have been leading a life of untold misery. But the life of these working people has not yet been investigated much. At present there are lots of population are involved with this industry in Bangladesh. The most of the labors are illiterate. Sometimes they don’t know how to write their name. The company arranges some training for them in very less time. The training and development programs in case of labors are not in satisfactory level. They learn by doing their work. The labors are not conscious about their different facilities also. Sometimes some organizations come to make them inform about different conscious facilities. But most of the times they are not attend in the seminar or program. Labors health conditions are not also in a satisfactory level, because of high drinking of alcohol. But they are getting the free medical facilities from the company. Labors are also getting some other benefits such as Residential facility, Food, Education facility, Job Security and Entertainment facility. On the other hand to be a managerial level employee it is highly education is needed and sometimes it is needed to do some other courses with this high education.
Tea Industry has seen a lot of changes in the past few years.
India, lost its first position as tea producer to China for the first time, in the last 110 years. www.unitedworld.edu.in
Tea Blending and Packaging Industry. Blending and Packaging of Tea
Tea is an important beverage in India. Simply, tea as a refreshing energy booster. Additionally, the tea comes with several health benefits too. Basically, the antioxidants help to eliminate toxins and free radicals from the blood.
Indian tea is among the finest in the world owing to strong geographical indications, heavy investments in tea processing units, continuous innovation, augmented product mix and strategic market expansion. The main tea-growing regions are in Northeast India (including Assam) and in north Bengal (Darjeeling district and the Dooars region). Tea is also grown on a large scale in the Nilgiris in south India. India is one of the world’s largest consumers of tea, with about three-fourths of the country’s total produce consumed locally.
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Human Resource Management Practices in Tea Gardens of Bangladesh: A Case Stud...Masum Hussain
An attempt has been made in this assignment to understand the human resource management practices of tea gardens in Bangladesh. In fact, human rights of the tea gardeners as a whole are yet to be exposed in our country. This assignment deals with different aspects of human resource management practices of the tea gardeners, focusing on some significant issues of social, economic, political and cultural life of those people. Special attention has been paid on the knowledge of the people regarding gender equity, importance of education, good governance, labor law etc. The assignment also investigates the attitude of mainstream people towards the tea gardeners and the way tea gardeners think of the people of mainstream society. It has been suggested in the assignment that all out efforts must be made to raise awareness among the tea gardeners about human rights and related matters.
Generally, it is assumed that the people working in different tea gardens all over our country have been leading a life of untold misery. But the life of these working people has not yet been investigated much. At present there are lots of population are involved with this industry in Bangladesh. The most of the labors are illiterate. Sometimes they don’t know how to write their name. The company arranges some training for them in very less time. The training and development programs in case of labors are not in satisfactory level. They learn by doing their work. The labors are not conscious about their different facilities also. Sometimes some organizations come to make them inform about different conscious facilities. But most of the times they are not attend in the seminar or program. Labors health conditions are not also in a satisfactory level, because of high drinking of alcohol. But they are getting the free medical facilities from the company. Labors are also getting some other benefits such as Residential facility, Food, Education facility, Job Security and Entertainment facility. On the other hand to be a managerial level employee it is highly education is needed and sometimes it is needed to do some other courses with this high education.
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Rakyan Beverages Private Limited produces juices. It serves customers through its stores, as well as via online. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Mumbai, India with stores in Mumbai, Pune, Gurgaon, and New Delhi, India. Rakyan Beverages Private Limited is planning to raise $20 million from the same set of investors since the time it started making cold pressed fresh juices. Having raised $7.2 million, its next round is expected to be a bigger one for expanding its beverage portfolio to foods such as vegetable chips and health bars.
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Mutation breeding and its application in our life.it contains the information about mutation,mution types,mutation breeding,mutation breeding process,its mutagen and the view of mutation breeding in BANGLADESH ......
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Brooke Bond Taaza
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93. BUSINESS Hazarika has been motivating the small tea growers to switch over to organic format due to high demand in the global market. Despite high demand, organic tea cultivation in the State is still poor. According to available information, total organic tea cultivation in the State stands at 1 Million kg per annum. Nearly 80% lakh kg is exported to overseas market and the rest is sold in the domestic market. Citing reasons for Meen Mohan Tea’s popularity, the tea farmer explained that he does not use any fertilizer or machine for production the tea. “I crush tea leaves by a traditional wooden device (Dheki) and dry it in an iron pan under regulated temperature, which keeps flavour and nutrients intact,” he revealed. Hazarika has been exporting tea to Canada since 2007. His tea has emerged a leading brand in the Canadian market. “I export nearly 25 kg to Canada annually. But demand for my tea has been increasing in Japan also. As my production process is purely traditional, Canadian buyers therefore prefer it as compared to other brands,” he added. Interestingly, Hazarika christened the garden after his parents - Meen and Mohan - who died long back. Hazarika’s objective today is to establish his tea in the global market. He has already ventured into the Canadian market and his next destination is to enter the European market. “This is a small beginning in my life. I need to work hard to enter the European market. Since European consumers are very quality conscious, I have to strictly maintain the quality quotient,” he observed. Meen Mohan Tea attracts Canadian consumers BUSINESS REPORTER GUWAHATI, Aug 25 – Meen Mohan Tea, a small garden located near Madhupur village in Lakhimpur has taken the Canadian market by storm. The organic tea produced by Gobin Hazarika has attracted the Canadian buyers for its quality and traditional flavour. He started tea cultivation in 1995 on nine bighas of land. Hazarika is now planning to expand his garden up to 22 bighas in view of the demand in the Canadian market. Guwahati, Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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Assam is in the northeast corner of India, and is one of the main tea producing regions of the world. Shaded areas shown on this map show Assam in relationship to China. Some tea is also produced in south India and in Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon.
In India, most tea is produced in plantations owned by a few large corporations.
Assam is primarily an agricultural region, and about 75% of the people depend on agriculture for their livelihood.
As well as tea, many sub-tropical fruits, spices and vegetable crops are produced in Assam.
The finest tea is made from ‘two tips and a bud” – the fresh young tips of the tea bush. Plucking is done almost exclusively by women, and is done by hand, not machine.
My husband Kel and I started the small tea cooperative after several years of providing training to farmers and small-scale tea growers in Assam. Through an NGO, Fertile Ground: East/West Sustainability Network that I set up here in Canada in 2003, we were able to create a training centre and demonstration garden for vegetable cultivation in a small town in northeast Assam. It employs 4 people and is now supported largely by sale of organic vegetables, seedlings and compost (natural fertilizer made from decomposed cow manure, leaves, weeds, straw and other vegetative materials – which can be produced at very low cost from locally available materials)
Staff and volunteers inspecting crops for sign of damage from insect pests or disease. We don’t use any chemical fertilizers or pesticides in this garden, but we do use formulas prepared from things like chili, ginger and garlic to repel insect pests. We try to emphasize the traditional methods farmers have used to improve the soil and prevent disease and insect infestation.
Pompy Ghosh is a young women I have been working with for the past 4 years in Assam. She now coordinates the resource centre and demonstration garden, and provides training in villages throughout Assam.
This is our office, library and outdoor classroom – small but beautiful. A new and larger classroom facility is under construction and should be completed sometime in 2012.
Tea is a member of the camellia family. If it was not pruned, it would grow 25’ high or more.
This is a very old tea bush, several hundred years old.
Tea bushes are planted very close together, and plucked and pruned on a regular basis to encourage new growth. Those new leaves are what are used in preparing tea.
Green tea, oolong tea and black tea are all produced from the same plant. The colour and flavour depends on how the leaves are processed.
Debate about origin Timing 2737 China / India? India han era Culture v’s commercial/business/trade Beverage, pickle, green P7
EARLY 17 TH CENTURY, Dutch East India Company brought the first shipment of tea to Amsterdam from China. Was known in France by 1636, Paris in 1648, 1650’s to Britain, Russia by 1689.
When tea was introduced to Europe, it was a commodity for the very rich.
The British established tea in India in 1824. The Assamese people did not want to work on their plantations, so tribal people from other parts of India were brought to Assam to work. They were indentured labourers – virtually slaves. Many workers to this date are descendants of the original “tea tribe” workers. The tea industry was unionized in 1950’s, but to this day, the working and living conditions of tea workers is generally not good. The workers are considered very low class people, and face a lot of discrimination.
My husband Kel and I met these workers on a large plantation in 1999. We tried to find some way we could set up a “fair trade” project with the garden owner, but he did not like the idea of using some of the income he generated from sale of the tea to improve the lives of his workers.
Many toxic and poisonous pesticides and herbicides are used in the conventional tea industry. Workers almost never wear any protective masks or clothing. Use of pesticides has affected local wildlife, fish, etc. Nowadays, use of chemicals has spread to agricultural crop production as well – especially by commercial growers. They still use chemicals which have been banned for use in agricultural products worldwide.
Tea is weighed and then sent to the factory. Workers receive a small price for the green leaves they pick.
Most factories are very large.
You won’t see any of the latest more high-tech equipment in my pictures. But they’ll give you an idea of the scale of production in the factories.
This is where Assam is situated in India.
Since the 1990’s, many Assamese families have started clearing the jungle areas near their homes and are growing tea. Some have very small areas under cultivation (1/2 acre), some have much larger areas. In a few cases, their family members help out – but mostly the workers they hire come from are immigrants from other parts of India or Nepal, and many are descendants of the original “tea tribe” workers.
This is the garden owned by one of the small-scale growers we’ve been working with since 1999. He’s a member of the Singpho tribe.
In China, the Singpho people are known as Jing Paw, in Burma they are Kachin. Their ancestors introduced the British to the presence of tea bushes growing wild in the forests of Assam.
The soil in this area has been exposed to monsoon rains, and is very low in nutrients and organic material. This is the organic tea garden when it was first planted.
We collected piles of straw, cow manure, wood ash, dried leaves and other green materials, and showed the families how to make layers of these materials to produce compost piles. The material decomposes in about 2 to 3 months. Finished compost makes a good source of natural fertilizer for tea bushes and vegetable gardens.
To control insect pests, the growers experimented with formulas made from finely ground chilis, ginger and garlic, as well as other local leaves. The leaves are soaked in water, the liquid is strained, and then sprayed on the crops.
Here is a pile of compost that has had earthworms introduced into it. The earthworms digest the partially decomposed materials, and turn it into very high quality fertilizer known as “vermicompost.”
Rajesh and my husband are discussing ideas for formulas made from fish waste, some local leaves, cow manure and water. After a few days, they add lots of fresh water, strain the materials out of the liquid, and spray it on the leaves..
It can also be used to drench the soil around the bushes. This helps feed the earthworms and other micro-organisms that make soil healthy. Healthy soil means healthy tea bushes.
The teas we sell are hand-processed. First they are heated over a fire, then spread on trays to dry.
We located some small-scale equipment that was being manufactured in another part of India. Rajesh and his family purchased one of these units. This is a tray used for laying the leaves out before they are processed.
This is a small-scale roller. In making tea, the leaves are rolled or crushed to release the juices in the leaf.
This is a tray dryer, fueled by compressed liquid natural gas. The tea leaves are laid out on the trays, the door is closed and the heat dried the leaves. It’s a really inefficient system because the trays have to be rotated to prevent the bottom tray from over-heating and burning. Every time they open the door, all the heat falls out into the room. We would really like to find some engineering students or someone interested in appropriate technology to design a more efficient system.
Stems are removed from the dried tea by hand by Rajesh and his brother.
I’m not going to tell you this whole process – it’s very labour intensive, and is a system Gobin designed himself. He is from a traditional Assamese family – very hard-working and proud of his heritage. He also uses local plants to prepare formulas for improving the soil and protecting the tea bushes.
The tea dryer you saw earlier can also be run with heat from a wood-burning fire. The tea leaves are not exposed directly to the smoke so the flavour doesn’t get affected by the smell.
We helped bring Rajesh to Canada in 2006 to promote his organic, hand-processed tea.
Stories about all the growers are appearing in the local and national news in India. This is helping to encourage other small-scale growers to convert to organic – but it’s difficult for people to find markets.
Kel, Rajesh and I set up the cooperative in 2007.
We designed labels and promotional materials. Some of our teas are packaged in plastic bags that are placed inside hand-woven cloth bags featuring traditional designs from Assam. The bags are produced by members of a women’s self-help group.
We also created labels to put our tea into small metal tins. You can see the teas through half the glass lid.
