Eastern Produce Malawi Limited including 237 small scale farmers is Malawi's largest tea producer accounting for approximately 38 percent of Malawi's total tea output.
Eastern Produce Malawi has for many years been committed to "doing business in an ethical manner by ensuring that environmental and social concerns are addressed in order to ensure sustainability". Corporate Social Responsibility profile of the company is noteworthy; it holds a CSR Office returning a percentage of its annual profits to community projects.
Eastern Produce Malawi is a signatory to a number of international agreements and declarations and places a high value in developing company policies in areas such as environment, ethics, health, labor rights, human resources management etc.

Its tropical location and superior cultivar plant varieties produce excellent quality teas that are unusually high in health promoting anti oxidants. UTZ CERTIFIED's Code of Conduct has benefited Nchima's operation in various areas like health and safety, environmental management, energy use efficiency ,social welfare and improved market access.
It includes 72 small scale farmers. The total certified area is 1,284 Ha.

Satemwa Tea Estate, including 175 small scale farmers, is located on the slopes of beautiful Thyolo Mountain with views of rolling tea gardens and the Mulanje Mountain in the distance.

"We were overwhelmed and thrilled to learn that we have achieved UTZ certification, because alone that means a potential market opportunity.
The certification means that Satemwa is among the very few tea producers in the world who have demonstrated adherence to world class standards such as the UTZ CERTIFIED Code of Conduct.
This is also an indication that Satemwa follows best and ethical practices in its business processes thereby making it stand out from normal tea producers." F W Mandala, Human Resources Manager

The total certified area is 890 ha.

Koperasi Putera Mekar is the first certified group of smallholders in Indonesia. The total certified area is 406,51 ha.

The Indonesian group PTPN8 is the first tea producer worldwide to receive UTZ certification. It is a multi-site certification against the draft version 0.5 of the UTZ Code of Conduct. The total certified area is 2,120 ha.

WAM Tea is a group of 426 small scale producers located in Kerala, India, who produce tea on a total of 275 hectare of tea gardens.

The small scale producers are located in Karimani, in the Wayanad district in the state of Kerala, in different small villages around the central factory. Their tea is sold on the auction and locally marketed under the brand Pushpagiri Tea; sales profits are paid directly to the producers and re-invested in the tea gardens.

The Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP) is an alliance of tea packers who are working together to improve the sustainability of the tea sector. The ETP members share a vision of a thriving industry that is socially just and environmentally sustainable.

ETP aims to improve the lives of tea workers and ensure that tea drinkers can be confident that the tea in their cup has been produced in an environmentally and socially sustainable way. ETP collaborates with a range of organisations to achieve these objectives. UTZ CERTIFIED has entered into an agreement with the Ethical Tea Partnership, Given the overlap in the criteria required by the ETP and those stipulated in the UTZ Code of Conduct, estates who become UTZ CERTIFIED will no longer require ETP monitoring. See www.ethicalteapartnership.org for more information.

The mission of the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) is the acceleration and up-scaling of sustainability within mainstream commodity markets. The focus is on mainstreaming the social and ecological sustainability of commodity supplies from emerging markets to the Netherlands and Western Europe. In this way, IDH is working on the Millennium Development Goals for poverty reduction, sustainable environment, and an open trading and financial system. Along with certification bodies and prominent social organizations, they are working on large-scale training and certification of tea growers and plantations. For more information see www.duurzamehandel.com/en/tea

UTZ CERTIFIED works together with Solidaridad to implement its sustainability programs in coffee, cocoa and tea producing countries. Solidaridad is a developmental organization that believes sustainable economic development is the best solution to structural poverty in developing countries. In 1988, Solidaridad initiated Max Havelaar coffee and has build further on this success. Tea and cocoa followed. Other initiatives are Kuyichi Jeans, Oké bananas & MADE by. Corporate social responsibility is developing at a fast rate. A lot of large and small companies all over the world are now working with Solidaridad on sustainable chain development. See www.solidaridad.nl for more information.

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