Tea Production in Bangladesh: Shift from Tea Exporting to Tea Importing Country

Abstract

Tea is one of the most popular drinks in the world. Now, different companies are trying to increase its value-added products like cold tea, ice tea, lemon tea etc. so that tea can be a supplement to cold drinks. Most of the effort have been successful those who attempt to for this. But most of the countries like Bangladesh, Kenya, and Zimbabwe failed to adapt with the new adaptation or technologies. For this reason, they failed to generate optimum quantity of tea to compete with the other global tea producing forces. The way this drink is getting popularity, the production of such item failed to meet the requirements. Finally, these analyses are helping us to depict the real pictures of world tea demands, productions, exports and imports. Tea has become an important sector in Bangladesh. It is a growing sector with an increasing contribution in GDP, employment generation and earning foreign exchange. Bangladesh is blessed with huge Agriculture sites which constitutes major part of Tea industry. Proper maintenance of these beauties along with assuring other logistic facilities can make the Tea most Agriculture sector.