The founder of BRAC University Sir Fazle Hasan Abed wanted to create a reputed university to educate future leaders who would contribute to the national and global sustainable development agendas.
Consumption, however, fell last year to its lowest level since 2007 due to the pandemic-induced lockdown.
Annual consumption reached 95.2 million kilograms in 2019, up from 36.95 million kgs in 2001, data from state-run Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) showed.
This brought per capita tea consumption to more than 588 grams, or 294 cups a year. In total, people sip about 5,000 crore cups of tea, according to industry people.
The consumption, however, dropped to 84 million kgs last year due to the pandemic-induced lockdown, which forced hundreds of thousands of hotels, restaurants, tea stalls and offices across the country to shut operations from late March to early June last year.