This document discusses the need for sustainable organic practices in tea production in India. It notes that tea has historically used high amounts of pesticides, which can compromise export potential and soil and crop health over time. Climate change is exacerbating these issues. The document proposes that plantations assess their "Pesticide Pollution Index" to determine if organic conversion or chemical reduction is appropriate. It advocates for a comprehensive package of practices focused on "energy replenishment" for fatigued soil and plant systems, through the "Energization" of both soil and plant systems using techniques from the Inhana Rational Farming Technology. This aims to restore soil dynamism and plant resilience for long-term sustainability of tea crops and

1. The Organic Scenario
&
The Complete Truth
Regarding Sustainability
An Initiative
of
Inhana Organic Research Foundation

2. Rising Consciousness Globally for Organic
Conversion as an Initiative towards Sustainability
Rising Stringency inRising Stringency in
International MarketsInternational Markets
reg. MRL in Foodreg. MRL in Food
Products . . . .Products . . . .
The recent TRUSTEA Programme
or Plant Protection Code (PPC),
towards Low Pesticide Tea . . . .

3. The Present Organic Scenario . . . . .
Practically No Assurance of :
QUALITY
QUANTITY
REGULARITY

4. Tea has been the Plantation Crop with Highest
Pesticide Usage in terms of Quantity as well as
Number of Chemical Ingredients
Highest Use of Herbicides.
The risk of Bioavailability is also high in Tea if not theThe risk of Bioavailability is also high in Tea if not the
highest, considering Perennial crop, No Scope ofhighest, considering Perennial crop, No Scope of
Bioremediation, most importantly VegetativeBioremediation, most importantly Vegetative
PropagationPropagation
Increasing stringency on MRL, compromises the ExportIncreasing stringency on MRL, compromises the Export
PotentialPotential

5. Declining Crop ProductivityDeclining Crop Productivity
Declining Soil QualityDeclining Soil Quality
Resistant Pest & DiseaseResistant Pest & Disease
DANGERS are LURKING
i) Inconsistent Tea Quality
ii) Enhanced Cultivation Cost
iii) Higher Residue in End Product
The Indian Tea Industry has been Searching for Clues

6. Climate ChangeClimate Change Impact has Severe Repercussions on the already
Vulnerable Tea (C3) Plant
Climate Change induced Stress upon Plant System is due to two factors Higher
Pest Population & Simultaneously Higher Pesticide Application
Plant – Pest Relationship is Purely Nutritional, has been established by
Trophobiosis Theory of eminent Scientist F. Chaboussou (Healthy Crops, 2004)
Hence, Stressed out Plant System onHence, Stressed out Plant System on
account of higher pools of free aminoaccount of higher pools of free amino
acid & reducing sugars becomes furtheracid & reducing sugars becomes further
Vulnerable towards Pest, therebyVulnerable towards Pest, thereby
invitinginviting More PesticidesMore Pesticides
& The Vicious Cycle Continues . . . . . .& The Vicious Cycle Continues . . . . . .

7. WE HAVE TO
A Complete Package of Practice which in a Time
Bound & Affordable Manner can ensure . . .
Crop Sustenance & Quality irrespective of
Management Practice i.e.,
Organic or Chemical Reduction

8. HOW TO DECIDE ON THE PATHWAY
Assessment of ‘Pesticide Pollution index’ (PPI) of
Individual Plantation w.r.t. to Crop (CPPI) & Soil (SPPI)
shall enable decision regarding whether to go for Organic
Conversion or Chemical Reduction Programme
Plantation with low CPPI value shall have the choice for
Organic while Higher value garden can initially go for
Chemical Reduction till choice for organic comes naturally.

9. Plantation
SWOT Study of Individual
Plantation shall only Validate the
Choice of Management Practice to
be Undertaken. . .Assessment of :
Soil Productivity of plantation (using Soil
Quality Index i.e. SQI).
Inherent bottlenecks of the plantation (if any).
Optimum Productivity Potential that can be
achieved through adoption of an effective Crop
management programme.
Sections with accrued limitations, which can
aggravate further under chemical application
thereby limiting Crop Productivity.
Development of
Resource Maps

10. There is need for a Comprehensive Package of Practice that
should aim for Sustainability
What should be the guiding criteria for The Package…
The Guiding Criteria should be ENERGY REPLENISHMENT
Because Soil & Plant System have become Fatigued due to
decades of Chemical Application

11. Input Substitution shall not Help . . . .
Otherwise Decline in Crop Productivity would not have
been the Phenomenon under Chemical Fertilization.
Application of Growth Hormones would have reflected in Crop
Performance
The Declining Curve be of Crop Production or Soil Health, nowThe Declining Curve be of Crop Production or Soil Health, now
calls for the Elixir of Life for Revitalization of Soil & Plant System.calls for the Elixir of Life for Revitalization of Soil & Plant System.

12. SOIL
MICROORGANISMS
PLANTS
LIFE
ENERGY
The Package of Practice should aim towardsThe Package of Practice should aim towards
Enlivenment of Soil & Plant . . . . Towards the GoalEnlivenment of Soil & Plant . . . . Towards the Goal
of Sustainabilityof Sustainability

13. Inhana Organic Research Foundation (IORF) &
Inhana Rational Farming (IRF) Technology
IRF Technology is based on two Founding and Correlated Pillars :
A comprehensive Plant Management Practice referred as ‘Energization
of Plant System’ which works towards Activation of Plant Physiology
leading to Plant Resilience
An effective Soil Management Practice referred as ‘Energization of
Soil System’, which serves towards enlivening of soil for restoration of
soil dynamism.
IORF is Sustainability Provider, enabled through IRF Technology be it . . . .
Chemical Reduction & Organic