{"id":387519,"date":"2018-03-02T23:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paisawapas.com\/student-stories\/?p=387519"},"modified":"2018-03-02T23:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T18:08:14","slug":"avantika-jalan-organic-tea-farming-assam-ss-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paisawapas.com\/student-stories\/avantika-jalan-organic-tea-farming-assam-ss-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Avantika Jalan, Teenager Who Aims To Prosper In Organic Tea Farming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avantika Jalan and brother Mrityunjay, carry forward the family heritage of 600-hectare tea estates in Tinsukia district of Assam. They have been working hard to make the organic market for tea more mainstream.\u00a0\u00a0Avantika spent her early childhood in Assam, where her family owns these tea estates. The family moved to Kolkata when she was three, but Avantika could never ever forget her roots. After completing her undergraduate from Carleton College, USA, she headed back to where it all started. She took the opportunity to build the family estate into a model sustainable system. Avantika answers for us:-<\/p>\n<h3><strong>1. What has been your most touching or amazing moment so far?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I think the most touching moment so far has been watching my new management grow. When I hired them, they were completely new to tea and organic agriculture. Now, they are managing a 350 Ha garden, and are more conscious of organic management. One of our sections was not performing well, and I was on the verge of giving up on the section being organically managed, my team wasn\u2019t willing to give in, and asked for one more chance to revive the section, and they did.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"389144\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.paisawapas.com\/student-stories\/avantika-jalan-organic-tea-farming-assam-ss-interview\/avantika-jalan-mrityunjay-jalan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215312\/Avantika-Jalan-Mrityunjay-jalan.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Avantika-Jalan-Mrityunjay-jalan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215312\/Avantika-Jalan-Mrityunjay-jalan.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215312\/Avantika-Jalan-Mrityunjay-jalan.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-389144 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215312\/Avantika-Jalan-Mrityunjay-jalan.jpg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"avantika-jalan-organic-tea-farming-assam-ss-interview\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215312\/Avantika-Jalan-Mrityunjay-jalan.jpg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215312\/Avantika-Jalan-Mrityunjay-jalan.jpg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215312\/Avantika-Jalan-Mrityunjay-jalan.jpg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>2. Do you face any struggles for sponsors to continue with your passion?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Yes, to get the management to invest in a new product or a new system for doing things in a more sustainable way is always a challenge. The long-term benefits vsthe short-term are always in play.\u00a0In the initial days, it was a lot of learning. I did not know the agricultural practices and tea practices. I had to understand the current systems \u2013 the problems, what works well, what does not. Switching the local management to organic was also not easy, as no one believed in it. I slowly started training people under the organic system and once they started seeing results, they became more confident that the system works.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge I still face is convincing managers (non-organic \/ conventional managers) to spend resources to invest in the organic systems \/ sustainable systems.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. What about acceptance in India, when it comes to changing a drinking habit? You know in most cases, people will choose wine over tea\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The bigger challenge is to be a brand competing with the other retail brands in India that are much bigger and have more brand awareness. Creating a market for high-quality organic teas has been a challenge, as most people want the regular chai, however, with Amazon and other online platforms opening up, we see a good market for our niche products as well.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>4. Starting-up Mana Organics, was it inspired by running a family business Chota Tingrai Tea Estate?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This tea estate was started by my great-grandfather, in 1943. Mana Organics is a venture based on my father\u2019s work with Maikaal-BioRe and I decided to take it ahead. \u00a0It was an organic cotton project that he had started in 1992 with farmers in Madhya Pradesh. The farmers had become\u00a0self-sustainable\u00a0using organic practices \u2013 and gone on to work with several other projects in their villages. I wanted to recreate that model in Chota Tingrai and show that\u00a0organic and sustainable systems\u00a0can work in tea.\u00a0A 100 Ha of the plantation has been converted into organic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_389145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-389145\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-attachment-id=\"389145\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.paisawapas.com\/student-stories\/avantika-jalan-organic-tea-farming-assam-ss-interview\/avantika-jalan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215342\/Avantika-Jalan.jpg?fit=1200%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Avantika-Jalan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215342\/Avantika-Jalan.jpg?fit=300%2C125&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215342\/Avantika-Jalan.jpg?fit=1024%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-389145 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215342\/Avantika-Jalan.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"avantika-jalan-organic-tea-farming-assam-ss-interview\" width=\"1200\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215342\/Avantika-Jalan.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&#038;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215342\/Avantika-Jalan.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&#038;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215342\/Avantika-Jalan.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&#038;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/student-stories.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/student-stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16215342\/Avantika-Jalan.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&#038;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-389145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lush green cultivations of Assam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>ALSO READ : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paisawapas.com\/student-stories\/fareeha-tafim-14-year-old-indian-wushu-waarior-ss-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fareeha Tafim,14 Year Old, Indian \u201cWushu\u201d Warrior, Taking Women Safety To Next Level.<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>5. What makes you different from your competitors?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Our dedication to\u00a0sustainability, personal touch with the field and estate management, and a happy mix of experienced and young innovative team makes us stand apart from our competitors.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>6. What is your core passion and long-term vision behind the business?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been drawn to\u00a0rural India. I worked with an NGO, Kalpvriksh as part of a scholarship grant through Carleton College, where I worked in tribal villages of the western ghats. I learnt the concept of\u00a0sustainability\u00a0here. It motivated me to pursue sustainability in the context of rural development and farming in India. The long-term vision is to make Chota Tingrai the model tea estate and use it as an example to help other growers in the region achieve sustainability.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>7. What are the market gaps you trying to address through this extended business?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We are trying to provide authentic organic Assam teas, which come from the socially responsible estate. Anyone wants to buy good quality teas, can directly contact us.\u00a0I want to bring renewable resources to fulfill the estate\u2019s energy needs, as well as develop a rainwater harvesting system in the estate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avantika Jalan and brother Mrityunjay, carry forward the family heritage of 600-hectare tea estates in Tinsukia district of Assam. They have been working hard to make the organic market for tea more mainstream.\u00a0\u00a0Avantika spent her early childhood in Assam, where her family owns these tea estates. 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