Establish Marketing Facilitation Desk (MFD) for business development and lobby. CTCF was established and registered in 2010  September 16th under cooperative department of Nepal Agriculture and Ministry of cooperative with registration number -18/067/068  to work as an umbrella organization for  all the tea cooperatives of Nepal. Recently  there are one hundred  tea cooperatives  five district tea cooperative federations 7500 house hold members  eighteen thousand farmers involved in tea farming  more than eighty thousand people are employed in this sector. CTCF is organizing various programs at grassroots  farmers   cooperatives  district  state(provincial) and national level in cooperation with Locals  states and federal government  National Tea and Coffee development Board  National Cooperative  Federation   National Cooperative Bank  various I/NGOs  Asian Farmer association for sustainable Rural development(AFA)  World Green Tea Association  ILO country office for Nepal   TEASEC Nepal  SNV/Nepal  Agriterra Netherlands  SIMEN Project  UNNATI projects  MAAS International  International Trade Centre (ITC)  Fondation de France (FDF)  commercial banks and financial institutions  different industries and companies to make them more sustainable in both farming and business case resulting in entrepreneurship development with promoting responsible business practices.
Goal:
To provide quality services to member cooperatives  develop skilled human resources and develop organizational capacities of member cooperatives by the year 2018.
Key goals:
Professional and strengthen institutional capabilities of tea cooperatives in Nepal Intensified representation lobby and advocacy Improved cooperative tea marketing andCTCF sustainability. The overall goal of this project is to link cooperative tea in the international market by focusing on building new sales relation.In terms of quantitative target CTCF has planned to sell 2000 kgs of tea through MFD in the period of January 2020-December 2020.CTCF will have new business linkage with 25 new buyers. Agriterra and CTCF have been cooperating on different fields since 2012. From its inception in 2010  CTCF has developed into an organization with 101 member coops (representing more than 6000 tea farmers) with a combined market share of 25% in the orthodox tea in Nepal. CTCF has become a strong and well known federation both internally as well as in the field of lobby and advocacy and service provision to its members. The cooperation between Agriterra and CTCF in 2018 was focused on business development  marketing and lobby. In the recent years many of the members of CTCF have established a tea processing factory. These members are increasingly demanding CTCF to assist them in their marketing activities to sell the tea they produce. Most of the tea produced is being sold to middleman where the farmers are paid low prices. An Agripool assignment was conducted in July 2018 to concretize the plan of establishing a Marketing Facilitation Desk (MFD) by CTCF to address the demands of their members. The tea experts facilitating the assignment found that the tea of Illam is of high quality and can be sold in international markets. The MFD will focus on linkage of members tea with the national and international buyers by conduction different promotional activities and attracting buyers in buying cooperative tea. MFD  is charging 10% of the total price to make its business sustainable. CTCF has planned to sell 2000 kgs of members tea through MFD in the period of January 2020- December 2020