Mission and Vision
“To lead the industry through quality, hygiene and management. To provide the best product to the customer and continuously add value to the system”.
Heritage of Darmona
The company "Darmona Tea" was founded by the Gowder family in 1984. The Gowder family has been in the Tea business for the past four generations. The Gowder family which is well known among the local community takes great pride in the Tea cultivation. We the Gowders have an excellent knowledge in Tea cultivation and management. The company "Darmona Tea" is the leader among the bought-leaf sector and is rated as the finest producers of quality Tea in the Industry. The management is committed towards producing good quality, flavor, and taste. Our experience and management brings in the uniqueness and the art of producing deep amber color, alluring aroma and delicious flavor and our uncompromising approach by crafting the best tasting tea.
The Nilgiris
The Company is situated in the Nilgiris, South India. Nilgiris is known as the queen of the hill stations and also the Tea land of south India. The surrounding mountain range, which overlooks the Indian Ocean facing Africa, gradually became home to several hundred Tea estates at elevations of one thousand to six thousand feet, comparable with those of Darjeeling. The district has only about ten thousand more acres in tea than Darjeeling does, but it produces almost four times as much thanks to its more tropical location. Nilgiris best tea is produced between monsoons during the dry December/March Quality Season, when perhaps 35 percent of the years harvest is plucked. The high grown black teas from the Nilgiris ("Blue Mountains" in Tamil) are among the finest produced anywhere.
Why Darmona CHAI?
Darmona Tea, the fastest-growing brand in the natural foods, has an exclusive flavor, taste and appearance. Each blend is made with the finest tea leaves plucked exclusively from the home garden. Quality is maintained right from the stage of plucking to the final stage of manufacture. Great care is taken to provide a perfect blend of CTC teas handpicked from our own select tea gardens, blended to give you the exact combination of Strength, Flavor and Taste.
History of Tea
South India, with a total area of over 89,000 hectares under tea cultivation, produces 203 million kilograms of tea annually, which is nearly 24% of the national production. Of this, around 75 million kilograms is accounted for by the small sector, comprising over 65,000 small tea growers and 165 bought leaf factories, including those in the co-operative fold. Over a quarter million plantation workers are employed in tea gardens across the state on Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. Exports of tea from this region are of the order of 100 million kilograms per annum, which constitutes more than half of the total tea exports from the country. Over the past two decades there has been a rapid expansion of the small sector in the tea industry, with a large number of farmers in the Nilgiris, which account for 95% of the small tea grower, converting from vegetable cultivation to this plantation crop. Unlike traditional annual crops, tea was found to be relatively free of pests and diseases, easier to maintain, excellent for soil conservation and regular source of income. The boom period of 1997-98 in particular saw unprecedented return to the tea industry and bought economic prosperity to the Nilgiris.
