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| NEWSMAKER – Sandip Thapa, founder and CEO CuppaTrade

| FEATURE INTRO – This week, Tea Biz travels to Kolkata, India, a global hub for tea commerce, where South Asia Correspondent Aravinda Anantharaman discusses innovations in digital trade with Sandip Thapa, founder of CuppaTrade, an eMarketplace that enables small growers to sell their tea in bulk tea online.

An Online eMarketplace for Small Tea Producers – "CuppaTrade is primarily an online platform," explains Thapa. "We are developing an eMarketplace focused on the small tea grower cooperatives, the bought-leaf factories, and the small producers. Our goal is to expand the market by identifying secondary and tertiary buyers. We connect small growers with a huge number of small buyers across the country. In phase two, we intend to open up cross-border transactions, wherein we focus on exports."

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