Tea production in Bangladesh hits Bumper 96.50 million kg in 2021

[Bilal9]

by Analysis Team

January 20, 2022

in Agriculture, Agro




Recently, Bangladesh has broken all its past records in tea production. A total of 96.50 million kg plant leaf was produced by 167 farms across the country in 2021.

Officials of the Bangladesh Tea Board disclosed that production was10.39 million kg more, up 17 per cent, from the preceding year.

Tea has been one of the regular imported products since 2010. But now, the country’s production surpassed the demand. thanks to the government’s financial activities like timely distribution of fertilizers at subsidized prices, regular monitoring and counseling by the Bangladesh Tea Board.

Plain tea gardens and small plantations jointly contributed around 14.54 million kgs of tea to the national production in 2021 which was 10.30 million kgs in 2020.

According to the BTB statement, training tea growers at the Camellia Open Sky School and the provision of modern technology has pulled the production up by 41 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020 from flat tea gardens and small plantations.

The tea board permitted the local traders to import around 2.7 million kg tea in 2019. Then imports started to drop on the prediction of increased production.

 

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Plain tea gardens and small plantations jointly contributed around 14.54 million kgs of tea to the national production in 2021 which was 10.30 million kgs in 2020.

This paragraph implies that the production in the tea gardens of plain lands in PanchGarh in the north adjacent to Darjeeling is responsible for the additional production of tea last year.

When the total production is up by 10.39 million kg, Panchgarh gardens have produced 14.54 million kg. So, technically, it is our northern gardens that are contributing to the surplus production.

Tea gardens need rainfall, but water should not stay long at the stem of the tea tree. In the case of Sylhet/ Assam as well as Darjeeling of India, water goes down immediately because of the hill slopes which satisfies the condition.

But, Panch Garh is almost a flatland. I have personally lived in Syedpur/ Parbatipur and went to Chilahati near the Indian border. The area is full of sandy soil. This is why rainwater goes down through millions of pores in the sandy soil below.

So, the land is perfect and it is producing a very large quantity of tea that has caused BD to stop imports.

 

[Surya 1]

Cheers for BD.