Ceylon Tea in Sri Lanka

The main three crops in the country are Tea, Coconut and Rubber and beyond them Tea can be seen in a largest boundary on the Island. Also Sri Lanka was famous for Coffee and due to Hemileia Vastatrix disease killed the majority if the Coffee crops. Because of this reason the estate owners had to transfer to other crops. James Taylor is famous for Tea Cultivation.

Most of the Ceylon tea gardens are located at distance from the grounds between 3,000 and 8,000 feet in two areas of the southwestern part of the island, to the east of Colombo and in the Galle district on the southern point. In the hot, steamy plains and foothills, the tea bushes flush every seven or eight days and are picked all year round. 





The supreme teas are gathered from late June to the end of August in eastern districts and from the beginning of February to mid-March in the western parts of the Sri Lanka. Until 1971 most of the island’s tea estates were owned and managed by British population.

History of Ceylon Tea

In the 1840, James Taylor studied about the Ceylon and the opportunities existing there for cultivating coffee. Afterward Taylor moved to the Hill Country and planted not only coffee but also some tea seeds from India. When the Coffee leaf disease blasted the Coffee cultivations; Tea Industry came into play as a creature. Next the mountainside of the hill country was carpeted with the green of tea bushes. And Ceylon Tea became the world’s favorite drink.

The origin of Tea was famous with the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung and he declared that Tea is giving "vigor of body, happiness of mind, and determination of purpose." The Most of the population is drinking gallons of tea on hot, iced, spiced and flavored with or without sugar, honey, milk, cream, or lemon.