Sri Lanka is the land of tea, Ceylon tea.
Tea is the country’s most important export product. The tea plantations provide employment to a large part of the population. The plantations were started by the English. As before 1800 there were coffee plantations. But the English are tea drinkers and also started producing tea. When the coffee bushes were affected by fungal diseases around 1880, production stopped. The tea plantations were worthy successors.

The Scottish Sir Thomas Lipton (1850-1931) is a well-known entrepreneur in Sri Lanka. He had plantations on the island. We know his name from the tea bags. Lipton tea is available everywhere.

The tea is picked by hand, usually by women, and collected for further processing in the tea factories.

Nowadays there are more and more places where tea is produced sustainable.

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