Ceylon Tea History
Ceylon tea industry is of vital importance to her economy two- thirds of foreign exchange earnings and a large slice of governments revenue are derived from this industry The Chinese have used tea as a beverage for over a thousand years and our own knowledge of tea manufacture is traced to china. The original habitat of the tea plant is the subject of controversy on account of the wide geographical distribution of the plant and the diversity of types in which it is found . Tea plant is known by various names after the botanists who discovered the different species tea was originally named “ camellia thea “ and “thea sinensis” In china go as “thea bohea” in india or assam variety called “thea viridis” or “thea assamica”
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