The Nilgiris Cooperative That Sells Tea, Coffee and Spices to 14 Countries — Without a Single Middleman
At 6,200 feet above sea level, in the mist-wrapped slopes above Coonoor, a 62-year-old Toda tribal woman named Lakshmi picks the season’s second flush of orthodox tea — two leaves and a bud, repeated hundreds of times before noon. Two decades ago, a private buyer would have paid her roughly ₹8 per kilogram of green … Read more