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Double trouble: Increasing tea & sugar deficits
2016-03-08 07:15:00| Sugar Industry News
Both tea and sugar have long become a part and parcel of our culture: they are intrinsic to our daily consumption, and their cultivation internationalised our commerce under British rule that helped the colony become the crown jewel of the British Empire. Since independence, we have increasingly produced far more consumers than all the tea or sugar harvested, generating a growing deficit. Started by the East India Company, tea production began along the Karnaphuli River from 1843, eventually shifting fulcrum to Sylhet 14 years later; while sugar was multinationalized and combined with tea by England in the 17th Century.
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