Bangladesh Tea Research Institute () (BTRI) is an autonomous organisation under the

Bangladesh Tea Board 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, Bangladesh. It is under the Ministry of Commerce. History ...

(BTB).

Background

The Pakistan Tea Board, in 1957 established a tea research station in

East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...

. After the Independence of Bangladesh the station was upgraded to a research institute by the government of Bangladesh in 1973.

References

{{Authority control Government agencies of Bangladesh 1973 establishments in Bangladesh Agriculture research institutes in Bangladesh Agricultural organisations based in Bangladesh Tea industry in Bangladesh Srimangal Upazila