The Bangladesh Tea Board or BTB, an autonomous body responsible for creating laws regarding tea production, controlling and encouraging the production of tea and is located in

Chittagong Chittagong ( ), officially Chattogram, (, ) (, or ) is the second-largest city in Bangladesh. Home to the Port of Chittagong, it is the busiest port in Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. The city is also the business capital of Bangladesh. It ...

, Bangladesh. It is under the Ministry of Commerce.

History

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, was chairman of the board in 1957. The act was replaced with Tea Ordinance in 1959. After the independence of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh, Tea Ordinance in 1977 created a three member board and expanded to eleven with the Tea (Amendment) Ordinance in1986. The board was established through the Tea Ordinance in 1977. The board moved its headquarters from Dhaka to Chittagong in 1984. In March 2018, Chairman

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of the tea board was made head of

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and was replaced with Major General

Md Jahangir Al Mustahidur Rahman Muhammad Jahangir Al Mustahidur Rahman is a retired two star officer of the Bangladesh army and former Ambassador of Bangladesh to Lebanon. He was the antecedent chairman of Bangladesh Tea Board. Early life and education Rahman was born on 5 ...

. Three employees of the board received the National Integrity Award in 2022. It sought to increase tea cess from 1 percent to two percent. The board helped tea production in Bangladesh reach a 168 year high.

References

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