Cover of ‘Samatler Cha Shilpa’ unveiled

Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) Chairman Major General Md Ashraful Islam, ndc, psc, has unveiled the cover of a book titled “Samatler Cha Shilpa” (Tea Industry of Plain) on the beginnings of the plain land tea industry in Northbengal.

“The BTB Chairman unveiled the cover of the first ever complete book written in Bengali in a function held at Rangpur Circuit House in the city on Sunday afternoon as the chief guest,” a press release said on Monday.

Principal Scientific Officer of Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) at its Panchagarh Office Agriculturalist Dr. Mohammad Shameem Al Mamun has written the 504-page book with illustrated information about the origin of plain land tea cultivation and tea industry.

Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) Chairman Major General Md. Ashraful Islam, ndc, psc, unveiled the cover of a book titled “Samatler Cha Shilpa” (Tea Industry of Plain) written in Bengali on the beginnings of the plain land tea industry.

Panchagarh Zilla Parishad Chairman Md. Hannan Sheikh, Development Officer of BTB, Panchagarh Md. Amir Hossain, its Senior Scientific Officer Mohammad Sayedul Haque, President of Small Tea Garden Owners’ and Tea Traders’ Association of Bangladesh Md. Amirul Haque Khokan, owners of tea gardens and factories, representatives of Panchagarh Chamber of Commerce and Industry and small tea farmers cooperative societies, small tea farmers, brokers, warehouse owners, tea traders were present.

Dr Mamun said the book is dedicated to the great architect of independent Bangladesh and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who was the first Bangalee Chairman of Tea Board and his worthy daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who was the inventor of the plain land tea industry. The book is divided into sixteen chapters.

“The book contains the history of tea industry, Bangabandhu and tea industry, BTB for development of tea industry, Sheikh Hasina and plain land tea industry, development and prospects of plain land tea industry, statistics of plain land tea, organic tea and tea in socioeconomic development, employment generation and poverty alleviation,” he said.