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Colombo,

SriLanka

1910

 
 
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Shipping Tea, Colombo

In 1897, tea replaced coffee as the prime export of Ceylon

In the 1860's the coffee rust fungus disease destroyed the coffee industry of Sri Lanka. In 1866, a Scotsman named James Taylor planted 21 acres with tea. In 1872 he established his tea factory and began a brisk trade exporting his Ceylon tea to London.
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