Bangladesh Tee Garden
History of Bangladesh Tea Industry about to 1840 when a pioneer tea garden was situated up on the slopes of the slants in Chittagong where the Chittagong Club now stands. In any case business tea garden was developed in 1857 at Mulnichera in Sylhet. In the midst of the bundle in 1947, Bangladesh (the then East Pakistan) had 103 tea spaces, covering 26,734 hectares of tea farm with yearly era of 18.36 M.Kg. with a yield of around 639 Kg. per hactor.
Home usage was around 13.64 M. Kg. upto 1955. After that home use went up rapidly and Government constrained 3% necessary development of tea locale consistently in 1961. Following ten years by 1970, tea district was extended to 42,658 hectares and era was incrased to 31.38 M.Kg.
In the midst of opportunity war in 1971, our tea industry persevered through colossal damages which realized poor organization, high opening, deficient inputs, crippled modern office device, inadequate upkeep et cetera inciting lower yield and low nature of tea.
Regardless, the industry soon got a noteworthy push for the advantage of the organization through a tremendous progression program (BTRP-1980-92) with the budgetary and specific help of the British ODA and EEC and creation extended to 65.84 million kg. with per/ha. yield of 1255kg. in 2013.
Mainly Sylhet is standard tea garden area. The wonderful Surma Valley is secured with patios of tea gardens and rich green tropical forests. Srimangal is known as the tea capital of Bangladesh and for miles around one can see the green floor covering of tea gardens on the incline slants.
The area has more than 150 tea gardens including three of the greatest tea gardens on the planet both in reach and era. Around 300,000 manpower are used on the tea spaces of which more than 75% are women. Administrators need to unite with women for separating tea leaves since they enhance work and are paid not precisely the men.
A visit to the tea estate in Sylhet is a foremost difficulty. The gardens are relics from the seasons of the British Raj. The farms were started by the British and the boss still live in white timber homes as they did in those days. The houses stay on enormous delightfully kept up gardens and the organization and lifestyle is essentially unaltered.
A by and large new zone that has go under tea advancement is the sub-Himalayan region of Panchagarh. The soil and air is extremely incredible for creating tea here. For sure this region is contiguous with Assam and Bengal in India where tea has been created for an impressive time allotment. Beginning with only 300 segments of place that is known for range in 2000, the cash yield is at present being created on more than 3,500 areas of area in Tentulia, Sadar and Atoari upazilas of Panchagarh. It can be reached out to finally cover around 60,000 areas of area.
The humus content in the soil here is more than in the standard tea growing regions of Sylhet. The tea conveyed in Panchagarh is obviously incomprehensibly enhanced in quality than that of Sylhet. A couple of nurseries have been set up in Panchagarh and Thakurgaon to supply shocking saplings to the tea gardens. This certifications to be a tolerable road of livelihood for neighborhood individuals and shots of extended passages of tea. Beginning now Bangladesh export tea to Pakistan and Russia and other countries.