CEYLON TEA☕️🌱

 


History of tea 🌱☕️

The story of tea in Sri Lanka began two hundred years ago. British rule was largely enforced and in 1824 the first tea plant was brought to Ceylon. It came from China and was planted in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya for non-commercial purposes.

The cultivation and production of tea in Sri Lanka started during the British era.

The story of Ceylon Tea begins with coffee. This means that coffee cultivation existed in this country before tea cultivation started. Around 1870, the coffee plantations were destroyed by a fungal disease. Later all the coffee growers shifted to tea production and cultivation.

 In 1824, the British brought a tea plant from China to Ceylon and later tea cultivation spread throughout the island.

James Taylor, a Scottish planter known as the "Father of Sri Lankan Tea", established the first commercial tea plantation in 1867 on 19 acres of Lulkondera Estate in Kandy.

First factory and export: In 1872, Taylor began operating a full-fledged tea factory, and in 1873, the first shipment of 23 pounds (10 kg) of Ceylon tea arrived in London.





As a result, tea cultivation has become one of the highest earning industries in Sri Lanka at present.

The tea plantation areas of Sri Lanka are divided into seven primary agro-climatic districts.

  • Nuwara Eliya (Little England)
  • Dimbula
  • Uva
  • The upper pussella
  • Kandy
  • Hantan. 
  • Ruhuna
  • Sabaragamuwa


Sri Lanka is home to hundreds of tea factories, primarily concentrated in the central highlands. 

  • Nuwara Eliya (Little England)(Top tea factories)
  • Datry valley tea factory gampola
  • Macwoods Tea Center
  • Pedro Tea Estate
  • Tea Factory Hotel
  • New Giragama Tea Factory and 
  • Pirmatamalawa Tea Factory
  • Uva Halpewatta Tea Factory
  • Bluefield Tea Factory
  • Handunugoda Tea Garden
  • Damro Labookellie
  • New hopewell tea factory 
  • Wikiliya tea factory 
  • Rothschild tea factory 
  • Vithanakanda tea factory 
  • Nildalukanda tea factory 
  • Green mount yea factory
  • Blouses mount tea factory
  • Harangallatea factory
  • Mount carmel tea factory 
  • Boscombe tea factory 



Datry valley tea factory is in our village .I live in near to that. Therefore our village has a lot of tea estates.


There are 4 main stages of production in a tea industry. In this process, the tea leaves go through four stages. They are, 

  1. wilting
  2.  rolling
  3. Oxidation 
  4. drying



















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