tea estate

Sri Lanka tea plantations: history [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he history of tea plantations  (Camellia sinensis) in Sri Lanka is quite  an interesting one. After cinnamon, coffee was for 200 years was the lucrative crop on the island of Ceylon controlled by the British Empire . In 1869, crops were devastated by a fungi called Hemileia vastatrix and by … Read more