Tea production last year amounted to 96.5 million, the highest in the country’s history
Tea production in the country surged to a historic high of 9.6 crore kg in 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic, state-run Bangladesh Tea Board said.
This is also the highest annual tea production in the region’s 167-year history of commercial tea cultivation.
Officials and tea garden owners described expansion of tea cultivation, increasing investment, use of new technologies and government initiatives as key reasons behind the rise in production.
Previously, Bangladesh posted a record high tea production of 9.607 crore kg in 167 large and small tea estates of the country in 2019. But production fell to 8.639 crores kg the following year.