Sri Lanka 1st Tea Plant

3 560 views published on mar 6 2019 the loolecondera estate was the first tea plantation estate in sri lanka ceylon started in 1867 by scotsman james taylor it is situated in kandy sri lanka.

Sri lanka 1st tea plant. The first tea bushes of commercial quantity were planted in sri lanka by james taylor at loolecondera estate in lower hewaheta in the kandy district in 1867. Tea production is one of the main sources of foreign exchange for sri lanka formerly called ceylon and accounts for 2 of gdp contributing over us 1 5 billion in 2013 to the economy of sri lanka. It employs directly or indirectly over 1 million people and in 1995 directly employed 215 338 on tea plantations and estates. Sri lanka s premier hospitality group aitken spence hotels welcomed back guests on 1st october 2020 to its unique hillside property heritance tea factory the only one of its kind in nuwara eliya.

Life in loolecondera taylor visited india in 1866 to learn the basics of growing tea on plantations. Since then following the coffee blight in the mid 1800s all of the coffee which was grown in the mid and high grown district has been replaced with tea. Following his return he started a plantation in loolecondera estate in kandy sri lanka formerly known as ceylon. Promising panoramas from the highest elevation in sri lanka heritance tea factory is a hillside sanctuary that guests can escape to break away.

Tea plant nuwara eliya 211 upper lake road magasthota 22200 nuwara eliya sri lanka excellent location show map. To develop high yielding tea cultivars incorporated with other desirable characteristics that are suitable for various tea growing agro ecologies in sri lanka. Loolkandura estate in the kandy district is the very first patch of tea was planted as a test after the failure of coffee plantation in sri lanka. Nearly 200 years after the first commercial tea crop was planted in sri lanka by james taylor tea production grew rapidly with all coffee plantations being converted to tea.

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