 | Impact, special achievements & commitments |  |  | Phongsaly district and provincial authorities has been promoting tea plantation since 1994/95 as replacement of opium poppy. Tea is a main agricultural product and has been considered as one of the seven prioritized products of Phongsaly province with long history of ancient tea resources of more than 400 years in Loungching village and other 28 villages with plantation tea areas in Phongsaly district and other 6 districts in the province which have average number of production in 3,300 Ton/year of fresh leaves. Those areas are chemical free (organic by default) with such good resource and potential to commercially produce the tea. FFL project start from the visit to Phongsaly Green Tea Factory and Somnuek Tea Factory in late 2017 of Cha Do, a German tea distributor with the support of Helvetas (a Swiss development organisation). Cha Do interested in importing tea as Organic and FFL certified. With the support of Helvetas by BioTrade and COPE project, these two tea factories is supported in improving activities on CSR and apply for FFL in 2018. |