Changlang's Patkai foothills have established Singpho-Khampti tea heritage and growing speciality-tea cultivation. A small orthodox-tea processing unit produces single-estate Arunachal tea for the speciality-tea D2C and export market.
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Changlang's Singpho and Khampti communities introduced commercial tea to Arunachal centuries before British plantations. The current cultivation is small but quality is genuinely high — high-altitude tea with floral notes that single-origin buyers value. A small processing unit (orthodox + green tea, 200-500 kg/day) processing locally-sourced leaf produces single-estate Arunachal tea for the speciality D2C market and emerging Asian export buyers.
Capex of ₹12–25 lakh covers a withering trough, rolling table, oxidation chamber, dryer, and grading equipment. The Tea Board's small-grower scheme (35% subsidy on machinery) and NEC's industrial subsidy fund the build. Hard parts: orthodox tea processing skill (very different from CTC), securing leaf supply at fixed prices through harvest, and brand-building from a Singpho-tea origin story (the wedge is real but storytelling is everything). Realistic: 4 years to break-even.
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