Every tea carries wonderful benefits for human health. But do you know whether a tea that is both “delicious” and “wholesome” is also one that is both “green” and “sweet”? And how is such a tea actually produced?
From leaf to cup
Our two growing areas sit in the valleys on the eastern side of the Tam Dao range, in Dai Tu and La Bang, ringed by Nui Coc Lake. Member households plant and tend every bush under the cooperative’s Six No production commitment, with the patience a tea garden asks for.
The picked leaf is processed at TRAVINA’s own factory in Thai Nguyen, which meets Vietnamese food safety (ATTP) and VietGAP standards, in a modern closed process that protects the leaf’s natural character from pan to pack.
From the midland (Trung Du) variety and high-yield hybrid tea, TRAVINA makes tea that is clean, with a deep traditional flavour — the taste Thai Nguyen is known for.
TRAVINA is a working cooperative in Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen, open to visitors all year. Pick the leaf yourself, stand beside the pan while the tea is fired, then brew what you have just made and drink it where it was grown.
Ninety member households. 40.5 hectares. An hour and a half from Hanoi airport.
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Why a cooperative in Thai Nguyen exports tea TRAVINA is the export brand of Tam Tra Viet Cooperative: 90 member households, two production facilities in Dai Tu and La Bang, Thai Nguyen province, working 40.5 hectares of tea gardens under
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A Thai Nguyen cooperative has milled its first matcha lots from its own Six No blocks. This is what exists, what does not, what to ask any new matcha origin, and who TRAVINA wants to work with.
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What the Tam Dao foothills do to a tea bush, what TRAVINA changed in the fields to farm to the Six No commitment, what it cost, and how to work with a Thai Nguyen cooperative that publishes its numbers.
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TRAVINA bans six inputs from the tea garden. What each prohibition is, what replaces it, why we are not organic certified, and how a buyer verifies the claim with laboratory reports.
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Who grows TRAVINA tea: 90 member households in Dai Tu and La Bang, 62 per cent from ethnic minority communities. How leaf is priced and graded, and what a due-diligence buyer can ask for.
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TRAVINA grows in Dai Tu and La Bang on the eastern slopes of Tam Dao, not Tan Cuong. Terroir, cultivars, a real harvest calendar, certificates and lot traceability from a Thai Nguyen cooperative.
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Viet Nam is the world's fifth largest tea exporter yet sells at about 65 per cent of the world average price. Where the tea grows, what the export figures show, why the gap exists, and how TRAVINA works with buyers
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Scans of every licence, certificate and award held by TRAVINA - Tam Tra Viet Cooperative, with numbers, issuing bodies and expiry dates.
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