Sri Lanka Tea Country

The highest production of 340 million kg was recorded in 2013 while the production in 2014 was slightly reduced to 338 million kg.

Sri lanka tea country. The high grown tea is grown at an elevation of over 6 000 feet and is light in color and delicate in taste. Sri lanka or ceylon as it was known when it was a british colony is one of the largest tea producers in the world. It s said that the first tea plant was brought back i e. The privatization of the nationalized tea estates in the mid 90s and the rapid increase in the.

Sri lanka s tea country nuwara eliya or the little england is located at an altitude of 1 868 meters 6 128 feet the entire region is filled with romantic landscapes governed by rising mountains lush forests lush green tea gardens and gushing waterfalls mingling with the clouds and landscapes shimmering in sunlight and disappearing under the rising mist. It is found in nuwara eliya. 94 2682634 2669080 2687719 2682067 2684225 email. This region is famed for growing some of the finest tea in the world.

Mid grown tea stronger in color and flavor can typically be found in the kandy matale and bogawanthalawa areas. Areas such as nuwara eliya hatton talawakele labookele are some of the best places to experience the tea culture of sri lanka. The tea is still manually plucked by laborers mainly ladies who were brought during the colonial period from india. Smuggled from china by the british in 1824.

Tea in sri lanka can be categorized as high grown tea mid grown tea and low grown tea. It was planted in the royal botanical gardens in peradeniya kandy. Ceylon tea is a british luxury for good reason. The tea exporters association was incorporated to promote and protect the common interests of members who are engaged in tea exports.

The combination of an extremely high altitude and the shit ton of rain the region receives has led to the formation of a number of waterfalls many of which are massive. 06 tickell road colombo 08 sri lanka. In the hills of sri lanka s tea country 1 9 a train crosses the nine arches bridge after leaving ella east of colombo. Sri lanka is the world s fourth largest producer of tea.

It heads up through the hill country where some of the finest tea in the.