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Trinitea
The Sustainable Tea
Trinitea
Good for Environment
& Growers
Trinitea
The Future of Tea
The programme aims to transform the tea smallholder segment in India while taking care of the social and environmental issues. The tea smallholders are emerging as the leading supplier of green leaf in India and TRINITEA seeks to enhance the competitiveness of the Indian tea smallholders.
TRINITEA Programme of ITA and SOLIDARIDAD seeks to provide year-round on-ground training to improve agronomical, social and environmental practices of the smallholders. TRINITEA programme has tied up with all major tea smallholders associations in the country for providing better services to their members.
The programme implements a TRINITEA framework which is a digital self-assessment tool tailor-made for smallholders in the Indian tea industry. The assessment provides a high degree of assurance to the farmers, buying factories, the tea packers as well as consumers on social, agronomical and environmental aspects of tea production.
TRINITEA will focus on consolidating the ongoing support to smallholders.
1) To improve the social, economic, agronomic and environmental performances of 60,000 of all STGs families across India.
2) To set up a multi-stakeholder governance mechanism for making smallholder production more competitive.
3) To support tea packers to source traceable and safe tea from the smallholders and the estates.
The smallholders are now integral part of the supply chains of tea estates and also leading tea packers. It is predicted that the share of the smallholders would further increase. However, the smallholding sector still lacks access to high quality services and sustainability support in order to meet multiple challenges including that of climate change induced falling production, reducing quality, poorer price realisation and poor access to markets. The tea consumers are also demanding higher level of sustainable practices and food safety compliance.
Although certifications play a crucial role in supporting global efforts towards sustainability, experience shows that tea smallholder farmers would require continued support to adopt best agricultural practices. Further, certifications have not brought tangible improvements in either quality or profitability of the tea smallholders.
In view of the foregoing, TRINITEA focuses on a continuous improvement model, which supports farmers over time in a meaningful way, rather than the snapshot, fixed audit model of certification protocols. Farmers receive technical assistance, work plans, and ongoing support.
The TRINITEA self-assessment framework Application is available at Google Playstore for android phones. . This works in Bengali, Tamil, Assamese and English language.
Successful answering of the questions in the 10 chapters of framework would indicate the level of performance of individual producers or a group of producers.
TRINITEA framework generates a performance score of 1 to 3 stars denoting a journey from essential to good to leadership level showing step-by-step improvement.
Farmers can download Report card in PDF or JPG format showing the performance level regarding the TRINITEA requirements.
The objective is to build an increasingly valuable digital companion tool for the farmer. This will keep the farmer engaged and motivated while supporting the business requirements for credible assurance. This in turn will create the critical infrastructure around him to effect lasting and meaningful change.
TRINITEA framework should be filled up at least once in 13 months by the producer himself or through a lead farmer or supporting factories. Through, machine learning, Solidaridad and ITA would be in a better position to identify the areas of challenge and provide precision support to the targeted smallholders.
Solidaridad Field Support Centres and ITA’s branch offices would build capacity of partner smallholders’ associations so that they could provide better services to their members.
The contents of this digital assessment framework and digital implementation guide is created keeping in mind the priorities of Indian tea producers in local language that after initial hand-holding by the extension team, the farmers would be able to record information themselves.
A state of art digital system to encourage smallholders to assess their level of preparedness on the tea production landscape.
The focus is not on compliance or risk management through third party certification but on regular training by India’s leading tea experts for continuous improvement in efficiency as well as quality of tea
Trinitea covers 100 percent of the smallholder farmers directly and does not work on the square root driven sample selection model.
It is developed by Indian tea experts from ITA and other research institutes tailor made for Indian smallholder tea farming conditions and Indian legal framework without compromising on globally accepted sustainability principles.
The project and its implementation would be governed by Indian tea industry stakeholders with its secretariat in Indian Tea Association.
Solidaridad team together with Indian Tea Association and other technical institutes would provide implementing support on the ground for coming years free of cost.
A SMART self-assessment system to improve tea production practices step by step
by the farmers at their own pace assisting them to take informed decision with a
view to improve their overall operational efficiency.
Free year round trainings by reputed industry experts on critical aspects that reduce
crop losses and enhance tea quality.
Improved implementation of Plant Protection Code(PPC) by the smallholders through
digital as well as field level training and monitoring.
Leads to more efficient use of chemicals and fertilizers and addresses increasing
consumer demand for food safety.
Improves climate change adaptation for the smallholders.
Improves access to leaf buying factories in a transparent way.
Improves formation of smallholder’s collectives ( self help groups) and associations
while strengthening the existing ones.
Saves time and money, by removing the need to complete multiple sustainability
assessments for multiple green leaf buyers as well as tea packing companies.
Gives a new identity to the smallholder’s tea through TRINITEA logo and improves
the image of smallholder tea production in India and globally.
70,446
Total Tea Growers
Covered
52,666
Total Land Covered in Hectares
93%
Total Male Growers
7%
Total Female Growers
1
States
19
Districts
79
Taluks
1,795
Villages
158/5 Prince Anwar Shah Road, Ground Floor, Kolkata – 700 045
Ranjan Circar, (International Program Coordinator)
+91 33 4060 2209
ranjan.circar@solidaridadnetwork.org
Gangan Boriah, (Senior Advisor)
+91 33 4060 2206
boriah@solidaridadnetwork.org
M.A Ganesh, (Consultant Trinitea - Tea)
+91 33 4060 2211
ganesh.a@solidaridadnetwork.org
Tinsukia: Diggvijay Jamwal, Program Manager; By Lane-1, Sector-3, Bordoloinagar, Tinsukia, Assam. Pin-786125
+91 37 4234 2502
diggvijay@solidaridadnetwork.org
V.M. Arjun, Programme Manager; No.265, Harsham, Brooklands, Coonoor, India.
+91 423 2233772
arjun@solidaridadnetwork.org
Rohin D'Souza, Program Manager; Flat 4 D, Shree Krishna Sargam, Zilla parishad Road, Near Goodricke school, Jotinagar, Ward no 41, 2 Mile, Sevok Road- 734001
+91 99 3301 1270
rohin.dsouza@solidaridadnetwork.org
Mr. Madhurjya Barooah Chalkhowa, Post Box No.35 Dibrugarh 786001, Assam
+91 373 2301195/2301060
z1abita@gmail.com
Cinnamara Jorhat 785008, Assam
+91 376 2361262, +91 376 2361262
abitazone2@gmail.com
Tezpur Station Club Tezpur 784001, Assam
+91 3712 258032; +91 3712 258732
abitaz3@gmail.com
Dooars Branch Indian Tea Association Binnaguri 735203, Dt. Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
+91 35 6320 3004, +91 35 6320 3002
dooarstea@yahoo.in
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