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Article: Bangladesh: Tk 761 cr mega plan to arrest shrinking tea export, boost tea industry.
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- October 30, 2009
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Byline: babalu03
Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) has set a 12-year mega strategic development plan aiming at revitalising the tea industry in the backdrop of ever growing domestic tea consumption that leads to shrinking the export market of this traditional product considerably in recent years.
The giant development scheme titled "Strategic development plan for the tea industry of Bangladesh Vision-2021" with an estimated cost of Taka 761 crore has been prepared in line with the government's strategic economic outline of elevating the status of the country into a middle income by "vision-2021".
The increased local consumption coupled with high price ...