Equifarm Tea
equifarm tea is the brand of Grassroots Tea Corporation Private Limited (GTC). Through equifarm tea we want to create a model with a difference in the beverage industry. We bring you fresh, quality tea straight from our farmer communities. Our teas are infused with our values of fairness and steeped in our principles of transparency and empowerment. Our farmer communities have a direct say in the business and are able to invest back in improving product quality and influence social outcomes.
We believe every cup of tea has the power to change lives. By creating a strong, inter connected communi-tea of farmers and consumers, we bring wellness to your teacup and dignity and fairness to the lives of our farmer partners.
We assure ethical, social and ecological sustainability and traceability.
People
At the cultivation and manufacturing level, GTC encouraged a group of enterprising 260 indigenous Bodo small tea farmers in Assam (Rwdwmsha, Swmkhwr Valley, Rwdwmkhang and Pub chiaduar) to set up 4 manufacturing units in 2017 to process green tea leaves sourced from their own farms.
Each unit has an investment of more than a crore in terms of land, building, machinery and other equipments.
The mini tea factories have the capacity to process 1,500 kg of green leaf per a day at full capacity utilisation.They process high quality, traceable, socially and environmentally sustainable Orthodox and Green Tea
RwdwmshaÂ
A collective of 54 farmers with a total tea area of 44.20 hectares in the Barengabari village, Udalgudi district, Assam came together to form Rwdwmsha Small Tea Growers Society (registered on 07-09-2012) with the objective of engaging in collective leaf trade avoiding leaf agents and get a higher price for the leaf that they supply to the processing factories. This was facilitated by Centre for Education and Communication (CEC) New Delhi.
Farmers were selling the leaf individually and getting about Rs 14 per kg. In 2013, the growers collectively sold the leaf to processing factory and obtained a higher price of Rs.19 per kg. Farmers obtained technical trainings and improved quality of leaf.
The collective leaf trade fuelled the leadership and entrepreneurial aspirations of Rwdwmasha PPS, kindling their desire to move up the value chain. The Rwdwmsha PPS brought together its active members as shareholders to constitute Rwdwmsha Tea Producer Company Limited (RSA) under provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.
RSA raised equity from its members, obtained term loan from NABFINS, and received support from the Tea Board of India to set up farmer-owned micro tea processing factory with a capacity of processing 1500 kg of green leaf per day. The unit manufactures Orthodox (black) Tea and Green Tea.
RSA runs based on cooperative principles. The shareholders are ‘active producers’, which means that shares will be given to only those contribute in the supply of green tea leaves and that everyone have ‘one’ vote irrespective of number of shares one holds.
Swmkhwr Valley
Khasiapather, Jabangapather, Darogachub are villages mostly inhabited by Boro indigenous community, located in the backward district of Udalgudi in the State of Assam. Agriculture is the main occupation.
Farmers in these villages started cultivating Tea sometime in 2009. Farmers were selling the leaf individually to processing factory at about Rs 14 per kg. Subsequently, 32 farmers in these villages came together to form Sona-Bilai Small Tea Growers Society (registered on 07-09-2012). In 2013, the growers collectively sold the leaf to processing factory and obtained a higher price of Rs.18 per kg.
The collective leaf trade has fuelled the leadership and entrepreneurial aspirations of Sona- Bilai PPS, kindling their desire to move up the value chain. The Sona-Bilai PPS brought together its active members as shareholders to constitute Swmkhwr Valley Tea Producer Company Limited (SKV), which has been incorporated on 16 December 2016 as a Producer Company under provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.
SKV runs farmer-owned micro tea processing factory with a capacity of processing 1500 kg of green leaf per day. SKV raised equity from its members, obtained term loan from NABFINS, and received support from the Tea Board of India to set up the unit, which manufactures Orthodox (black) Tea and Green Tea.


SKV runs based on cooperative principles. The shareholders are ‘active producers’, which means that shares will be given to only those contribute in the supply of green tea leaves and that everyone have ‘one’ vote irrespective of number of shares one holds.
Rwdwmkhang
A collective of 54 farmers in the Barengabari village, Udalgudi district, Assam came together to form Rwdwmkhang Small Tea Growers Society registered on 07-09-2012 with the objective of engaging in collective leaf trade avoiding leaf agents and get a higher price for the leaf that they supply to the processing factories. This was facilitated by Centre for Education and Communication (CEC) New Delhi.

The collective leaf trade fuelled the leadership and entrepreneurial aspirations of Rwdwmkhang PPS, kindling their desire to move up the value chain. The Rwdwmkhang PPS brought together its active members as shareholders to constitute Rwdwmkhang Tea Producer Company Limited (RKG) and incorporated it on 11 July 2016 under provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.

RKG runs farmer-owned micro tea processing factory with a capacity of processing 1500 kg of green leaf per day. RKG raised equity from its members, obtained term loan from NABFINS, and received support from the Tea Board of India to set up the unit, which manufactures Orthodox (black) Tea and Green Tea
RKG has the advantage that it runs based on cooperative principles. The shareholders are ‘active producers’, which means that shares are given to only those who supply of green tea leaves and that everyone have ‘one’ vote irrespective of number of shares one holds.
Pub Choiduar
Tea farmers in the Alupara village, Assam started cultivating Tea sometime in 2009. With the support of Centre for Education and Communication (CEC), New Delhi farmers in these villages came together to form Pub Choiduar Small Tea Growers Society (Alupara) and started collective leaf trade.
Alupara raised equity from its members to set up farmer-owned micro tea processing factory with a capacity of processing 1000 kg of green leaf per day. The unit manufactures Green Tea and Orthodox (black) Tea.
Members of Alupara manufactures chemical free green tea to cater to health and quality conscious customers and bring in sustainable impact on the small tea farmers.