DHAKA,: Growing demand in home market forced tea-export to fall in recent days.
Last year, country fetched Taka 18 crore exporting only 0.91 million kgs of tea. This was revealed at the 43rd parliamentary standing committee meeting on public institutions held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with committee chairman ABM Golam Mostafa in the chair.
Committee members Dhirendra Chandra Debnath and SK Abu Baker attended the meeting. Commerce Secretary M Golam Hossain, Chairman of Bangladesh Tea Board Major General M Mahbubul Hasan and Chairman of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) Brigadier General Sarwar Jahan were present.
The meeting stressed research for increasing the quality of tea and its production following Sri Lanka’s and India’s examples to fetch more by exporting the item.
The committee recommended strengthening of TCB to keep the prices of essentials stable in the market.
It also recommended more manpower, increased storing capacity, allocation of more funds for TCB and removal of procurement complexities so that the organisation can buy goods smoothly. All audit objections regarding the tea board and TCB were placed before the committee that asked commerce ministry to solve those immediately.
Courtesy of BSS/The Independent
