Selim Reza, Dhaka: Tea production is not stable in Bangladesh. Production is higher than the target at any year, and no year’s total production of tea has been reached at the target house. Tea gardens have decreased this time in Bangladesh due to various reasons including labor dissatisfaction, increase production costs and lack of desired prices. As a result, the tea industry is reacting adversely.
Bangladesh Tea Board sources said that the target of tea in 2021 was about 10 million kg. But the total production of tea has been 1 crore 5 lakh 12 thousand kg. That is, production in Bangladesh has decreased by 5 lakh kg of tea.
In Bangladesh, the production of 1 crore 2 million kg of tea in 2021 was achieved against the target. That is, 1 lakh 3 thousand kg of tea is higher than the target. And in 2022, the target of tea is estimated to be 1 crore tea, but the production was 5.7 million kg of tea.
Tea garden concerned have said that the average production cost per kg of tea in Bangladesh is Tk 225-20. At the auction market, it is currently trading at an average of Rs. Garden owners of Bangladesh have been reducing production due to the loss of several years. As a result, overall tea production has decreased significantly. In addition, the weather, labor dissatisfaction and production costs of adverse Bangladesh and the cost of tea at the auction did not get the expected result in the production of tea this time.
According to information provided by the Bangladesh Tea Board, 1 crore 5 lakh 12 thousand kg of tea earned from January 2021 to November in Bangladesh, including the small garden, has been produced. Of these, 1 lakh 5 thousand in January, 1 lakh 25 thousand in February 1 lakh 5 thousand, 1 lakh 12 thousand in April 1 lakh 12 thousand, May 1 lakh 5 thousand in May, 1 crore 26 lakh 21 thousand in June, 1 crore 5 lakh 3 thousand in July, August 1. 1 crore 5 lakh 5 thousand, 1 crore 22 lakh 5 thousand in September, 1 crore 5 lakh 25 thousand in October and 1 lakh 3 thousand kg of tea in November. And in December, the total production of tea was 1 lakh 3 thousand kg of tea.
Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Sylhet, Chittagong and Chitra Bandarban, Khagrachari and Panchagarh districts of Bangladesh are produced in 5 gardens in 5 gardens. Of these, the number of tea gardens in Moulvibazar district of Bangladesh is 1 and the area of tea cultivation is 5,700 hectares. It is reported to be 1.5 percent of the total area of the district.
GM Shibli, chairman of the tea garden owner ‘Bangladesh Tea Parliament’ (BTA), told the Bangladeshi representative by telephone that this time the tea garden in Bangladesh has had severe drought during the summer. Besides, tea, irrigation, pesticide price hike, tea selling tea at low prices- these factors have affected the production of tea in Bangladesh. Apart from this, production activities in the gardens were stopped due to a long time on the demand for salaries in the NTC’s tea gardens, which contributed 5 percent to the national production process. These are the impact on the production target.
He also said that in Bangladesh’s largest tea company finale tea gardens, this time the target has been achieved less than the target. Although the price of tea is officially fixed at a minimum price of Tk 5, the cost of making one kilogram of tea for the garden owners of Bangladesh is Tk. 25 to 225; There you have to sell tea at auction at the rate of 5 to 20 rupees. The garden owners are losing some interest in the production of tea.
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