Product Description

The story of Ceylon tea begins over two hundred years ago, when the country that is now known as Sri Lanka, was still a British colony.

James Taylor, a Scotsman,  played a significant role in the development of Ceylon Tea.

James Taylor was fascinated with the art of tea making ,  experimented with  the tea cultivation and leaf manipulation to obtain the best possible flavour from the tea leaves. Taylors methods were emulated by other planters in the region and soon, Ceylon Tea was being favourably received by buyers in London, proving it to be a profitable plantation crop.

By the ***0s almost all the coffee plantations in Ceylon had been converted to tea. British planters looked to their counterparts at the East India Company and the Assam Company in India for guidance on crop cultivation. Coffee stores were rapidly converted to tea factories to meet the demand for tea. As tea production in Ceylon progressed, new factories were constructed and an element of mechanization was introduced. Machinery for the factories was brought down from England.

As Ceylon tea gained  its popularity throughout the world, there came a need  to facilitate and monitor the sale of tea.  An auction system was thereafter established and the first public sale of tea took place on *0 July ***3. The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce undertook the responsibility for the auctions, and by ***4 the Ceylon Tea Traders Association was formed. Today almost all tea produced in Sri Lanka is conducted by these two organizations