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Tage Rita
Tage Rita is an agricultural engineer from Ziro Valley and is India's first kiwi wine brewer.[1] In 2018, she was honored with the Women Transforming India Awards, organized by the United Nations and NITI Aayog. Early life and educationTage Rita Takhe was born in the Ziro Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. She belongs to the Apatani tribe. She studied and was trained as an agricultural engineer[2] from NERIST ( North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology ), Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh. CareerIn 2017, Rita invested in a boutique winery - Naara Aaba. In doing so, she also found the solution to a local problem. She would brew wine from Kiwi, a fruit that was found in abundance in the valley where she lived. She sourced the organic fruit from her orchard and the Kiwi Growers Cooperative Society in Arunachal Pradesh. The farming sector gained assured buyers. Her winemaking process follows traditional methods. It took her six years of research and planning to prepare the right procedure and the correct concoction. The winery has scaled its capacity since 2017 from 20,000 litres to 60,000 litres of wine production currently through 16 tanks.[citation needed] The first year of wine production alone supported 300 farmers and brought them back to the kiwi orchards, as they sold around 20 metric tons(20,000 kg) of kiwis to the winery. The process takes about four months from crushing the raw material to bottling. The wine tastes best between six and eight degrees Celsius.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Awards and recognitionOn International Women's Day 2022, she received the 2020 Nari Shakti Puraskar from President Ram Nath Kovind. The award is organised annually by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to recognise the women who create or inspire change.[10] The ceremony had been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic[11] and the ceremony included 72 women vaccinators who had excelled in their work.[10]
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