Dhaka, Feb. 13 -- Sylhet's tea industry is prone to various crises including smuggling, rising prices of various products, market control, high rate of bank loan repayment. As a result, there is anger among the garden owners. However, in 1854, the first commercial tea cultivation started in the country through the Malnichhara tea garden in Sylhet. Out of 135 tea gardens in the three districts of Sylhet, there are 92 in Moulvibazar, 24 in Habiganj and 19 in Sylhet. Hundreds of people earn their living by selling their labor in these plantations.

Tea plantation owners' organization of Sylhet T-Planter arranged a press conference at elite hotel in Sylhet on Sunday and highlighted various crises. Owners and representatives of 25 gardens of S...