Bangladesh Tea Growing Area:
Moulvibazar, Habigonj, Sylhet, Chittagong, Panchagarh are the main tea growing area in Bangladesh. Srimangal is known as the capital of tea growing area in Bangladesh. Miles around of tea garden is look like wonderful green carpet. Surma Valley, Srimangal hills, Chandghani hills, Khasiand Jainta hills are covered with a lot of tea gardens and lush green tropical forests.
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Total number of tea estates is 163 and total tea growing area is 54,106 ha in Bangladesh (Source: www.teaboard.gov.bd). There are three of the largest tea gardens in the world both in area and production. Nearly 300,000 workers are employed on the tea estates of which over 75% are women. Employers prefer to engage women for plucking tea leaves since they do a better job and are paid less than the men.
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A visit to the tea plantation in Sylhet is a memorable experience. The gardens are relics from the days of the British Raj. The plantations were started by the British and the manager still live in white timber homes as they did in those days. The bungalows stand on huge beautifully maintained lawns and the service and lifestyle is pretty much unchanged.
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Tea has been one of the major exportable items of Bangladesh. We had a captive export market in some countries to export tea. Export of Bangladesh tea in the year 2005 was 9.09 million kg which was 30.66% less than the previous year export of 13.11 million kg. Export earning was 742.62 million taka against 934.04 million taka the previous year. Of the exported quantity 6.57 million kg was sold to Pakistan alone. The Govt. of Pakistan allowed duty free entry of 10.00 million kg of tea per year from Bangladesh since October 2002 and offered to increase the quota up to 15.00 million kg. but Bangladesh could not utilize that quota fully as increasing internal demand pushes the price levels up in the local auction and discourages exports. Other tea producing countries like India, Srilanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kenya and some other African countries have relative advantages to supply better quality teas at lower prices that makes export market extremely competitive for Bangladesh Tea. (Source: www.teaboard.gov.bd).
