{"id":203,"date":"2013-12-18T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T06:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2013-12-19T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T09:03:33","slug":"fast-facts-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/?page_id=203","title":{"rendered":"Fast Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fast Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li>Mallika Srinivasan \u2013elected Chairman of UNITEA &#8211; <a class=\"linkTxt\" href=\"http:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/PressRelease\/Ms%20Mallika%20Srinivasan%20elected%20unanimously%20Chairman%20of%20UNTE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Schools, Hospitals, Pension Schemes, Retirement Housing- the workers can\u2019t have it better! And in recognition of all the welfare activities that UNITEA does, Fairtrade has been quietly pitching in. They have been paying a high premium for UNITEA a tea, which is being used not only to further labour welfare but also to improve the quality of life in the surrounding communities.Fairtrade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UP423hD1WYc\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/images\/youtube.png\" width=\"15\" height=\"14\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UNITEA partnered with Fairtrade (then Transfair, Germany) to build the certification guidelines for tea plantations. This was a first for both, as Fairtrade only had guidelines for Cocoa, Banana and Coffee. UNITEA went onto become one of the first to receive the FLO certificate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Did You Know<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li>Effective Jul 2012, UNESCO has granted \u201cWorld Heritage Site Status\u201d WHSS to the Western Ghats. Thus coining the word \u201cHeritage Teas\u201d from our own Chamraj and Korakundah estates in Nilgiris.<\/li>\n<li>UNITEA holds the honour for the being the first tea garden in India to be certified by FLO (earlier Transfair); and is also the first in India and second in the world to be certified by Rainforest Alliance. Yet another jewel in UNITEA\u2019s crown.<\/li>\n<li>Wondered what the Rainforest Alliance Logo is all about? It is the Red-eyed tree frog. Though not endangered, its habitat, the rainforest, is shrinking due to a mixture of deforestation and other environmental issues. What better way to raise awareness of the fast shrinking rainforest cover<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Facts Mallika Srinivasan \u2013elected Chairman of UNITEA &#8211; Download Schools, Hospitals, Pension Schemes, Retirement Housing- the workers can\u2019t have it better! And in recognition of all the welfare activities that UNITEA does, Fairtrade has been quietly pitching in. They have been paying a high premium for UNITEA a tea, which is being used not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"fastfact.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitednilgiritea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}