Ceylon Tea History
Ceylon tea history has a lot of memories with it. Ceylon tea is a well-known tea name in the world. But a lot of people don’t have an idea about where it is coming from. You can get the Pure Ceylon tea only from Sri Lanka. Because the Ceylon was another name used to call Sri Lanka in the British colonial period. Because of that, people around the world have known Sri Lankan tea the Ceylon Tea. The special topography and climate condition of Sri Lanka are giving the special characteristics for the Ceylon Tea.
Old Ceylon Map
The tea-growing was started by the British in the colonial period in Sri Lanka. By the early 1800s, the Ceylonese already had knowledge of coffee. In the 1870s, coffee plantations were devastated by a fungal disease called coffee rust. The death of the coffee industry marked the end of an era when most of the plantations on the island were dedicated to producing coffee beans. Planters experimented with cocoa and cinchona as alternative crops but failed due to an infestation of Heloplice Antonie, so that in the 1870s virtually all the remaining coffee planters in Ceylon switched to the production and cultivation of tea.
It was as far back as the year 1824 in which the British brought a tea plant from China to Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was known at the time). It was planted in the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya and is considered to have been the first non-commercial tea plant in Sri Lanka.
After nearly two decades in 1867, James Taylor, planted 19 acres of tea in the city of Kandy in Ceylon, at the Loolecondra Estate as the first commercial tea plantation. Because of that, he was given the name of “Father of Ceylon Tea”. The eventual sale of Loolecondra teas resulted in 1872, in Kandy and the first tea consignment to London in 1873.
The first broking firm John Brothers & Co. was established in 1876 and the first public Colombo auction took place in 1883 under the guidance of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. The Colombo Tea Traders’ Association was formed in 1894 and in 1925 the Tea Research Institute was established. These organizations helped boost the production and export of Ceylon Teas in its early stages.
Ceylon tea only you can get from Sri Lanka. You can identify Ceylon tea by the Lion logo which is given Tea board of Sri Lanka to assure the origin of tea. Darkley Tea offers you 100% Pure Ceylon Tea which is manufactured by Ranfer group in Sri Lanka and if you need to buy please contact us.
