Author: rajivlochan

Giddapahar brought us the laurels we deserve to pick and choose the best ones what we don’t produce but trade to please the consumer’s pallet. And of course the best place for this can be Paris only – Athena Minami and Chaminda made up for me and I was a distant invader.. 😀 Barbara Duffrene…
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It was not until China Radio covered us for a short documentary, we realised the love in our family ran on tea lines. My wife Manisha, my daughter Neha and my son Vivek – all work in tea – either running Doke or making or selling tea – we live tea and it is deeply…
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It was not until today that I realised the need and strength of associations although I went thru the leadership of many organizations over the period of my industrial involvement. At Doke we are doing something which is an evolution from the land which was so far almost unutilized and we went into non-traditional crop…
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My roots…in 1714 our landlord family shifted from Mahindragarh, Haryana to Farukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, when this city was built by Mugal rulers and later on during great plague of 1851 moved to Chandausi in the district of Moradabad in present Uttar Pradesh. I was born here in Chandausi in 1953 December and got educated…
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Nigel says and I second : I have never seen World Tea Expo as a trade show for selling “at the show”. It’s strength for the specialty tea movement has been and is as an educational tool and networking opportunity for a new community that is otherwise thinly spread across the globe. I have attended…
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On 12th June 2018 in Las Vegas America declared that they will have their own tea thru US league of tea growers and they will evolve a tea culture for that tea – China and India followed suit to help them out with techniques and knowledge. Initially Great Mississippi Tea company will perfect teas suitable…
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Until the right minds are together good decisions can’t be made and at Shanghai on 1st June it was an event for tea culture and tea tourism – a step ahead of production and marketing. Wherever healthy industries exist we plan for higher goals which becomes spiral as we are positioning ourself now for food…
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Sometimes you need a face to fill up the blanks and showcase something which is not present…one such time was 89th AGM of TIPA – Terai Indian Planters Association – and outgoing President KK Mintri was looking for a colourful presentation to cheer up the fledgling crowd faced with so many bleak fronts like Labour…
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If you have ferns growing all over your place it sure is organic… 😀. Alexis Kaae from Denmark 🇩🇰 visited Doke today and observed that ferns were growing everywhere all over the place abundetly. That is how you get certified unknowingly 😍.

Half of the tea was stolen and planted on the vergin soils of the forests around the globe by white men during seventeen, eighteen and nineteenth centuries and these jungles were infested with mosquitoes, bugs, caterpillars, moths and what nots – all sufficiently poisonous to kill a man if not laced by alcohol of one…
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