A cooperative federation of Small Tea Growers and Bought Leaf Factories in the Nilgiris is doing wonderful, reports live Mint. It also talks of Supriya Sahu, a female IAS officer who took over as CEO and turned the organization around in two years.
Established in 1965, the cooperative body had been in the red. Sahu focused on improving quality and providing better prices for tea farmers.
Presently, it has 30,000 small farmers as members, with 16 affiliate tea factories that process the harvest of about 14 million kilograms of black tea annually.
It uses the public distribution system (PDS), making its way to 30,000 ration shops across the state.