Overview of the Tea Industry of Bangladesh: Current Challenges and Future Potentials

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Tea is a non-alcoholic drink that has been an inseparable part of the life of Bangladeshi people for ages. This beverage has always been associated with happiness, refreshment, and rejuvenation. Additionally, tea even has numerous medicinal values. Exporting tea has been one of the major sources of earning foreign currency for Bangladesh for many years. However, as Bangladeshi people started having higher disposable income with an increased tendency to have tea as part of their daily drinking habits, domestic demand proliferated intensely. A record amount of 96,500 tonnes in 2021 production of tea wasn’t enough to fully meet the local demand, let alone export any significant portion