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Tea Marketing System of Bangladesh

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Executive Summary 2
Introduction 4
History of Tea in Bangladesh 5
Tea: an Overview 6 What does a tea leaf contain? 7
Tea Health Facts 8
Different types of Tea 8
How is Tea Grown 10 Tea Estates 10 Plantation and Environment 10 Growth 11 Cultivation 11
Tea Production of Bangladesh 12
Tea Marketing system of Bangladesh 15
The Role of the Auction Houses 16
Internal Market: Internal Consumption of Tea 17
Exporting Tea from Bangladesh 20
Export Market 22
Country-wise Export of Tea 25
Bangladesh Tea Board 26
Bangladesh Tea Research Institute 27
Problems of the Tea Industry 28
Suggestions 31
Conclusion 32
References 34

Executive Summary

Tea is the most popular …show more content…

However, at present, the tea industry of Bangladesh is going through the ‘bad time’; it is the foreign money earning agricultural commodity of the country. So, the government along with the tea producers must work hard to save this promising industry from being totally wash-out by these problems.

Introduction

Tea is one of the most important non-alcoholic beverage drinks worldwide and has been gaining further popularity as an important ‘health drink’ from the view points of its purported medicinal value. It is served as morning drink for nearly 2/3rd of the world population daily. The Bangladesh tea industry is one of the major sources of income for the national exchequer. It is predominantly an agro-based export-oriented evergreen crop of Bangladesh and a perennial crop grown as a monoculture on large contiguous areas.

The British established the tea gardens of Bangladesh around ‘Sreemongol’ in the 1850s; bringing labors from other parts of the British India. The British were doing the tea business quite profitably. At that time, they were producing tea only to export; because there were no local demands.

After the Partition of Bengal in 1947, East Pakistan inherited 133 tea estates covering 30,350 ha and their annual production was 18.80 million kg of tea. Tea production rose to 25.17 million kg in 1964, but the rate of growth of production in the province was lower than

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