Bangladesh Land Limited

Bangladesh Land Limited (BLL) a sister concern of HRC Family Of Companies was established in 1991 with an aim to set up model tea estates that would be engaged in improving the lives of tea estate workers with the basic and essential facilities for life such as food, housing, health, education and entertainment facilities.

BLL Tea Estates are unique in the standard of tea growing , maintenance and tea making. Gardens are located in the country`s premier tea belt region of Moluvi Bbazar district of greater Sylhet. Bangladesh Land Limited currently operates two tea estate which are Clevedon And Dildarpur. Clevedon acquired in the year 1991 and Dildarpur in the year 1994. Both the estates are contiguous, having a land grant of over 2334 acres. Clevedon was raised by Mr. Mitchel in the year 1886 and Dildarpur was again raised by an English man in the early part of 19th century, the company went Bankrupt and the garden was abandoned and was rendered under the custody of Bank for debt. Subsequently Mr. suresh Vhaduri and Mr. Horendra Sen Gupta in 1935 got the garden released from the bank and started tea cultivation. The gardens land mass mostly hills of folded earth, lateritic and partially rocky in places, got created God million years ago, at the time when the Himalaya and Khasia Jainta got created. The tea area being located in the temperate zone and in the tropic of Cancer proximity were receiving rain during the month of March to October. Due to global warming monsoon rain has shrunken on both ends of the year, now monsoon start in the month of May and close in the month of September. Annual quantum of rain has again got reduce to less than 120” which was earlier over 135” per year. Tea is a rain dependent crop. Hakaluki a inland Lake (Beel Area) spread over 64 square kilometer, is within the visible distance from the commanding hill heights of the gardens. Part of the water area is below sea level. Khasia Jainta Mountain is also visible across the water area of Hakaluki. From the hill top, with Khasia Jainta in the distante horizon, it is an enchanting sight to watch migratory birds settle on Hakaluki in the months of November to February. One gets a felling as if one is on the lap of mother nature.

The gardens have both skilled and unskilled workers. Experienced and skilled workers are enrolled as permanent workers. For workers benefits & rules, Bangladesh Tea garden Owners’ Association (BCS- Bangladesh Cha Songsad) ensure and implement. i.e. basic rights, good working conditions and fair wages of the labourers.

Each of the tea gardens have factories equipped with modern tea manufacturing facilities. The management practices, the policy of increasing its production facilities at regular intervals to maintain the highest quality. The tea produced is of high quality and sells at a premium price at the Chittagong Tea Auction. Clevedon & Dildarpur together make a total crop of 790000 KG premium tea for the last consecutive 15 years. Production yield per hector of both the estates are much above the national average. In terms of price Clevedon is within the first 3 garden out of 166 tea garden in the country. Clevedon has been the No.1 (one) tea garden for the past eleven (11) consecutive years.

BLL Tea Estate has an experienced management and uses state of the art tea processing equipment that has substantially increased the overall quality and status of the tea garden. We constantly endeavor to improve the quality of our tea both in bulk and in branded packets to satisfy our Buyers. Dependability is the essence of our business activity. In trying to achieve this, we are continuously making efforts to upgrade our production facilities and standards. That is where the BLL Tea Estates has positioned itself as an exception.

Bangladesh Land Limited Tea Estates are unique in the standard tea growing & tea making. We constantly endeavor to the quality of our tea in bulk and our branded packets to meet the demand of our consumer.