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Colombo,

SriLanka

1910

 
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Shipping Tea, Colombo

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In 1897, black Ceylon tea replaced coffee as the prime island export

In the 1860's the coffee rust fungus disease destroyed much of the the coffee industry of Sri Lanka. In the late 1860s, a Scotsman named James Taylor established the first multi-acre tea plantation in the country. Within a few years the first tea consignments were being sent to England.

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