It is the prevalent trade practice to surreptitiously enhance the relative weight of a green product, be it the leafy vegetables or a tea pluck by interspersing it with oodles of water. The interspersion enhances the volume of the commodity and it is done by the seller or the grower for a better price realization. […]
For the tea industry, dominated by small growers, the introduction of AI has been on a very low keel. However, AgNext in 2018 changed the paradigm for the tea industry through an AI based application called TragNext and a pilot was set up in association with Tea Research Association to bring about qualitative improvements in […]
Tea as a commodity has been consumed for ages but it has rarely been flavored with quality. Quality as a component so far is a discounted commodity in the brew. For quality to be the determining ingredient of the tea business the paradigm of tea business needs to change from a cost-plus model to a […]
While Technology and Tea have commonality through the first letter-T, now technology is extending its outreach in bringing a transformation in the Tea industry. The tea industry needs to be reckoned with and facilitate in gaining the sheen that it had lost during the last few decades. The tea industry is still at a greenhorn […]
Times of the pandemic is an inflection point in the path of economic and social progress, COVID has been one such point of inflection which has turned all the established canons of business topsyturvy and has forced all the players to grow back to the drawing board to calibrate the strategies and reorient to the […]
There was a popular slogan – Government at your doorstep to deliver the services. Well, taking cue from the present times where social distancing is becoming the norm and there are advisories not to undertake travel until it is very necessary- food processing industry is also taking steps forward facilitate testing at the doorstep of […]
Jyotsna Pattabiraman is a Stanford graduate who runs a food start-up in Bangalore named Growfit which specializes in innovative millet and organic product based dishes. Her start-up is a big hit among the health conscious crowd in particular in Bangalore as it suits there palate. With the lockdown that has been announced to prevent the […]
The tea industry in India is nearly 180 years old now. It was in 1840 when the Assam Tea Company began the commercial production of tea in the region. It is one out of the few industries that have adopted research and development way back in 1895 which was formalized with the setting up of […]
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