An attempt has been made in this assignment to understand the human resource management practices of tea gardens in Bangladesh. In fact, human rights of the tea gardeners as a whole are yet to be exposed in our country. This assignment deals with different aspects of human resource management practices of the tea gardeners, focusing on some significant issues of social, economic, political and cultural life of those people. Special attention has been paid on the knowledge of the people regarding gender equity, importance of education, good governance, labor law etc. The assignment also investigates the attitude of mainstream people towards the tea gardeners and the way tea gardeners think of the people of mainstream society. It has been suggested in the assignment that all out efforts must be made to raise awareness among the tea gardeners about human rights and related matters. Generally, it is assumed that the people working in different tea gardens all over our country have been leading a life of untold misery. But the life of these working people has not yet been investigated much. At present there are lots of population are involved with this industry in Bangladesh. The most of the labors are illiterate. Sometimes they don’t know how to write their name. The company arranges some training for them in very less time. The training and development programs in case of labors are not in satisfactory level. They learn by doing their work. The labors are not conscious about their different facilities also. Sometimes some organizations come to make them inform about different conscious facilities. But most of the times they are not attend in the seminar or program. Labors health conditions are not also in a satisfactory level, because of high drinking of alcohol. But they are getting the free medical facilities from the company. Labors are also getting some other benefits such as Residential facility, Food, Education facility, Job Security and Entertainment facility. On the other hand to be a managerial level employee it is highly education is needed and sometimes it is needed to do some other courses with this high education.

2. Submitted To:
Md. Asraful Islam Chowdhury
Lecturer
Department of
Business Administration
LEADING UNIVERSITY
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3. Masum Ahmad
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Syed Ali Hasan
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Mahmudul Karim Newaz
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Masum Hussain
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Abdul Motin
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Lovely Begum
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4. Introduction to tea industry
Tea is a very popular beverage
Engagement of people
Tea trade
British built tea plantations
Influence of multinational companies

5. History of Bangladesh Tea Industry
Pioneer tea garden
w was established in 1840
Malnicherra, Sylhet in
1854
Partition in 1971

6. Tea estates in Bangladesh
Sylhet-20
Moulvibazar-90
Habigonj-23
Brahmanbaria-1
Rangamati-1
Chittagonj-22
Panchagarh-9

7. Tea Sector Overview
Producers
Processing
Trade
Retail
Consumers

8. Bangladesh Tea Production
Tea production in Bangladesh maintained an upward trend with
an annual average rate of increase of 1.03% and on an average
produced 57.75 million Kg of tea annually during last ten years
(2002-2011).

9. Internal Consumption of Tea in Bangladesh
• Demand for tea has been increasing in Bangladesh since its
independence due to increased tea drinking habit, higher
income, population growth and rapid urbanization. Trend of
internal consumption has been shown in figure

10. Export Position of Bangladesh Tea
• Export of tea from has been declining @ 8.92% for the last
10 years (2002-2011) due to lack of exportable surplus.
Bangladesh exported 31.91 million Kg of tea in 1993 as
shown in figure

11. Human rights of the tea gardeners
• leading a life of untold misery
• most vulnerable groups
• government or non-government organizations
• deprived of all government facilities
• socio-economic condition

12. Occupation
Respondents are involved in different types of occupation mostly working in the
tea garden itself. Their life as usual, is different occupations of the respondents
are presented in the following table:

13. Education
Educational status of the working people has been found frustrating in the
tea gardens. Lack of schools in the premises of tea garden is most important
factor. Low level of awareness regarding the value of education among the
people is another reason for not getting educated.

14. Income
All the people earn an amount of money one way or the other. Some of them do not
have regular income others have a fixed income for each week. Many of them earn
on daily basis and a few earns a fixed amount of money monthly.

15. Problems of the tea industries in Bangladesh
There are many problems in the tea estates of Bangladesh,
these problems can be furnished as follows:
1. Natural calamity
2. Law and order situation
3. Shortage of medical facilities
4.Lack of pure water
5. Addicted person
6. Lack of infrastructure
7. Lack of capital and modern machineries
8. Lower market value of made tea
9. Lack of educational institutions
10. Malnutrition

16. Remedies and recommendations
Problems in the tea estates of Bangladesh can be solved by taking
following steps:
– Law and order situation of the tea estates
– M.B.B.S. doctor and supporting staffs
– Set up sufficient number of deep and shallow tube wells
– Wine consumption
– Housing problems of the laborers
– The executives of the tea estates must be conscious
– Production cost variables
– Shortage of capital and modern machinery
– Solution of drought
– Establish sufficient number of educational institutions

17. Global scenario
Table: Comparative Production of world's major producer countries of tea
In the world thirty countries are producing more than 2.50 billion
kilogram of teas annually from 2.56 million hectares of plantation.
After meeting their domestic consumption, 28 countries export
about 1.02 billion kg of tea annually

18. Per Hectare Productivities of Some Tea Producing Countries
• The trend of annual per ha productivities of some tea producing
countries along with world average production has been
depicted in figure:

19. Global Market
Although the Camellia sinensis is originally native to mainland
China, South and Southeast Asia, today the plant is cultivated
across the world in tropical and subtropical regions
Figure: Main Tea Producing Countries Source: FAOSTAT (2008)

20. Production and Export (international market)
Although tea is produced in more than 35 countries, three-
quarters of global production occurs in only a handful of these
countries.
Figure: Estimated Production and Export values 2010 in metric tons of top 10 countries

21. Consumption and Import
Contrary to coffee and cocoa, the affluent populations of North
America, Western Europe and Japan are not the largest markets for
tea. Over 50% of global tea exports are destined to the Middle East,
North Africa and the former Soviet Union countries.

22. Sustainability issues in the sector
In its current state, sufficient supply and quality of tea is not
guaranteed for the sector. Several social, economic, and
environmental issues, combined with the finite nature of natural
resources and rapidly growing populations, lie at the root of this
situation.
Table: Overview of the social, economical and environmental issues (Source: TCC 2010:6)

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