Chota Tingrai
TinsukiaFlagship estate. Japanese-style green, speciality and certified organic teas, and India's first commercial matcha.
USDA & India Organic certified
Our story
Four generations on one Assam estate
Tea, forest and a long friendship with Japan.
The beginning
A garden in Upper Assam
Chota Tingrai lies in the Tinsukia district, with a satellite garden at Tingamira. It is the flagship estate of Jalan Industries, a family-led tea business now in its fourth generation.
The estate has long made strong, brisk Assam black teas. Its difference is what it learned next.
The Japanese connection
Learning green tea from Japan
In the 1980s the estate set up a green tea factory with Japanese experts, among them the Hara family of Umenoen Tea Company. Production paused in the early 1990s.
In 2016 the next generation revived it, working again with the Hara family and Japanese engineers to adapt machinery to Assam leaf. That work led, a decade later, to matcha.
Grown with care
Organic, by practice
How we farm is part of what you buy.
100 hectares
of certified organic tea gardens.
Made on the estate
Organic inputs are produced in-house.
Zero waste
Practices across garden and factory.
Traceable
Every lot traced back to its garden.
Milestones
The road to matcha
1980sGreen tea factory set up with Japanese experts
2016Japanese-style green tea revived
2025Decision to make matcha
Early 2026Matcha machinery arrives from Japan
June 2026Commercial production begins
July 2026First lot sold at Guwahati Tea Auction Centre
Jalan Industries
A family of four Assam estates
Chota Tingrai is the flagship of four tea estates owned by Jalan Industries.
Durrung
Sonitpur · est. 1864Near Tezpur on the north bank of the Brahmaputra. Premium Assam CTC.
Dinjoye
Dibrugarh · est. 1923Assam orthodox teas.
Jalannagar South
DibrugarhCTC teas, made with leaf from local small growers.
Estate locations are approximate. Organic certification applies to Chota Tingrai.
Life on the estate
A day at Chota Tingrai
For hotels, cafés & brands
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