Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the owners of the country's tea gardens to introduce modern technologies in their gardens and factories to improve the quality of tea and increase production of the cash crop.
Hasina made the call when a delegation of the Bangladesh Tea Association led by its chairman Md Safwan Chowdhury met her at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday morning.
Sheikh Hasina said the tea estate owners had to incorporate modern effective technologies for increasing production and improving quality of tea so that after meeting local demand, tea could be exported in large numbers said her press secretary Abul Kalam Azad.
The prime minister reminded the tea garden owners about the past glory of tea industry of Bangladesh when huge volumes of tea used to be exported
'The past glory of the cash crop has to be brought back,' she said.
Listing various measures taken and implemented by the present government for development of tea industries and tea workers, the prime minister said government's assistance to this sector would continue.
In this regard, she mentioned her government's steps for providing ration to the tea
workers.
Land minister Rezaul Karim Hira, and members of parliament Imran Ahmed and Hafiz Ahmed Majumder, were in the delegation, among others.
source:NewAge
