1.1 Project Background:

Technical knowledge and skills play a very important role in tea cultivation and processing. Therefore, through this project, at least 40 tea cooperatives and more than 80 small tea processing cooperatives and 3000 tea farmers of small industries who have not been able to submit proposals for the UNNATI project, which is producing and distributing tea and selling it, will be trained in the tea producing areas of Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Sankhuwasabha, Tehrathum, Taplejung and Bhojpur to produce quality green tea and increase productivity. Cooperatives with processing industries will be trained in marketing and processing skills and will be trained in good production practices to make quality made tea and help in quality production and increase value addition. In addition, tea cooperatives are facing problems in marketing made tea produced by them, such as lack of coordination with international tea buyers, lack of fund to send samples due to high cost, lack of capacity to introduce good quality specialty teas to international markets, and lack of capacity to sell properly in the domestic market due to no separate outlets. In such a situation, the CTCF will expand the national and international market relations for made tea of tea cooperatives and small industries. CTCF will prepare tea documentaries in English and Nepali to explore the market access of small industries. The association will also create a website for e-marketing, establish a made tea sales room as well as a market information center, collect made tea samples and conduct tea testing among tea traders, collect and send samples to national and international traders, and coordinate with international traders to sell the tea in the international market using the Nepal Tea Quality from the Himalaya.

 1.2 Overall Objective

1. To increase the production of qualitative green tea and productivity
2. To support on producing high-quality made tea as per the requirements of international tea markets
3. To make access to the international market for cooperative processing industries and small entrepreneurs

1.3 Major Activities

1. Construction of Building for tea resource Centre (Technology information Centre, Tea Tasting Facility, Library facility, Training hall Capacity)
2. Website and Brusher Publication
3. Marketing information package development (mobile apps)
4. Tea Tasting Training For Tea Makers (Taster) To Tea Processing Cooperative
5. Establishment of Tea Library

1.4 Major Outputs

1. Building for tea resource center has been constructed with technology information center, tea tasting facility, library facility, training hall capacity
2. Tea library has been established
3. Tea Tasting lab has been established
4. New website teacoopnepal has been developed for excess to market
5. Tea Coops Mobile apps has been development to access information from the member
6. One tea tasting training for 3 days has been conducted. 20 participants were trained on tea tasting for quality control.
7. Tea related brochures have been developed and distributed to different stakeholders

1.5 Letter of appreciation

CTCF Nepal received an appriciation letter from the UNNATI project for the successfully completion of UNNATI Challenge Fund (UCF) funded by Government of Denmark.