Tripura wants its teas to be auctioned again in Bangladesh, stopped since 1965 war with Pakistan

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• 21 May 2021
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Tripura wants its teas to be auctioned again in Bangladesh, stopped since 1965 war with Pakistan

By Jayanta Bhattacharya

Agartala, May 21 (PTI) The tiny state of Tripura which has a century old tea growing history wants its teas to be auctioned again in Bangladesh, 56-years after exports through East Pakistans Chittagong tea auction centre stopped in the aftermath of the 1965 war.

Tea growers in Tripura want to sell their teas through neighouring Bangladeshs Sreemangal tea auction centre, just 10 kms away from the Tripura northern border.

"Tripura has always had a problem of auctioning tea as there is no auction centre in the state. Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has asked the Government of India to take up with Bangladesh so that planters from Tripura can auction their produce at Sreemangal, which is near the Tripura border, Chairman of the Tripura Tea Development Corporation (TTDC) Santosh Saha told PTI.

Tripura has some 58 tea gardens - 42 of which are individually owned, another 13 are run by cooperative societies while three are run by the TTDC. Besides, there are nearly 3,000 small tea growers in border state.

Interestingly, Tripuras gardens were pioneered by Indian tea entrepreneurs as the then ruler of the state, Maharaja Birendra Kishore Manikya, had a policy of not allowing British planters to buy land in his state.

Currently, growers here depend on far away auction centres in Guwahati and Calcutta to sell their produce, increasing costs. Till the 1965 war with Pakistan when travel and trade between the two neighbouring nations were easy, Tripuras tea used to be sold through the Chittagong auction centre and exported out of the port there. The war and subsequent rift in trade ties disrupted this arrangement. Manager of the Laxmi Tea Company, Manas Bhattacharya said, Absence of tea auction centre in Tripura is a major hurdle for sending the produce to the countrys main markets or to export tea abroad.

Planters hope that if they can sell through Sreemangal auction centre, then exports could also happen through Bangladeshs Ashuganj or Chittagong ports.

The agro-climatic condition is favourable for tea production in Tripura. Now we have got a logo approved for Tripura tea, to compete with Assam and Darjeeling Tea as well as other established brands, Saha said.

The state-run Tripura Tea Development Corporation is also trying to directly retail tea by selling `Tripureswari branded packets and reaching out to people through Public Distribution System (PDS), officials said.

We have three tea gardens, where we produce slightly more than eight lakh kg tea per year and sell the entire productions through PDS system. Now, we are trying to produce more tea because the demand is very high, Saha added.

Tea production began in Tripura at the Hiracherra tea estate in Unakoti district in 1916. As per latest reports, 6,885 hectares of land is under tea cultivation in the state, officials said.

The north eastern state currently produces over 3.58 crore kg green tea leaf annually. PTI JOY JRC JRC

Disclaimer: This story has not been edited by Outlook Staff and is auto-generated from news agency feeds. Source: PTI

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[Michael Corleone]

Why don’t they join us already. Pfft.

 

[fallstuff]

Why don’t they join us already. Pfft.

Be careful of what you wish for !

 

[Jobless Jack]

Why don’t they join us already. Pfft.

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[Silverblaze]

Parts of muslim majority sylhet were given to india particularly the karimganj district to india so they could have easy access to tripura.
Otherwise tripura would have been inside bangladesh today.

 

[SpaceMan18]

Tripura girls are hotties

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[Michael Corleone]

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[SpaceMan18]

You and me Vietnam after pandemic over! Deal?

I guess lol

 

[Anubis]

Do you want vedic Internet ?

Well to be honest their moronic cm who said those is actually Bangladeshi...can't really blame them.

 

[Jobless Jack]

Tripura girls are hotties

No need for union. They can always cross border.

 

[Leishangthem]

Parts of muslim majority sylhet were given to india particularly the karimganj district to india so they could have easy access to tripura.
Otherwise tripura would have been inside bangladesh today.

This is absolutely wrong,tripura was one of the princely state of British Raj India like Hyderabad,Mysore ,Manipur etc. It was never supposed to be part of Bangladesh.The region is hindu dominated,even the king of Tripura adopted hinduism and opened floodgates of bengali hindus on their state ,which came in en masse,bred like rabbits and took over the electoral spots in the capital with seer population size. Now the people of Tripura speak bengali as common term ,they are perceived as joke by Nagaland,Manipur,Arunachal,like some bangal immigrant overrun state in tragedy.

 

[Leishangthem]

Do you think we give a f@#k about what these lowlife poor a@@ NE states says about bengali people.

I don't care what you think ,the people of tripura cares especially the indigenous ones,the fact that their state has been overrun by bangla immigrants haunts them .They look up to Manipur ,Mizoram and such but can't fit with them .
And your kind should be the last to talk about "poor" ,Bangladesh has close to 38 million living below poverty line,that's almost the population of NE,which has less poverty,better health care and higher Human Development Index.

 

[Anubis]

I don't care what you think ,the people of tripura cares especially the indigenous ones,the fact that their state has been overrun by bangla immigrants haunts them .They look up to Manipur ,Mizoram and such but can't fit with them .
And your kind should be the last to talk about "poor" ,Bangladesh has close to 38 million living below poverty line,that's almost the population of NE,which has less poverty,better health care and higher Human Development Index.

Total indians living below poverty line is more than the population of Bangladesh.These population stats are irrelevant. Bengali has been the court language of Tripura kings long before the war and refugee crisis. Bengalis as an ethnic group are an admixture of many different ethnicities but are now bounded by one common language which basically defines our ethnicity. Tripura is and will be a part of Bengal.
And you said the people of Tripura cares...they care about what? Majority of the people of Tripura are Bengalis and it is not going to change.

 

[Varunastra]

Don't know what to think about this. On one hand we stand to make more profit definitely, on another this just adds to the current trend of best tea crops being shipped to outside my state leaving us locals with the lesser quality produce sold here, me being a tea lover that doesn't delight me

Why don’t they join us already. Pfft.

Not gonna happen but we are all for better relations and trade

 

[Anubis]

Don't know what to think about this. On one hand we stand to make more profit definitely, on another this just adds to the current trend of best tea crops being shipped to outside my state leaving us locals with the lesser quality produce sold here, me being a tea lover that doesn't delight me

Not gonna happen but we are all for better relations and trade

If it is any condolence Bangladeshis won't be drinking the best tea crops from Tripura either...they will be eventually be exported after the auction.