



The
Island
of
Ceylon
(now called
Sri Lanka)
is world renowned for its high quality teas. Today,
Sri Lanka
is the world’s second biggest tea exporter. More than 25% of the value of all
Sri Lanka’s
exports are accounted for by tea. Tea cultivation is scientifically managed and
skillfully produces the world’s finest, fragrant blends. This ensures
consistency in the flavor, aroma and color of
Ceylon
teas that are marketed.
Tea cultivation was established, in
Sri Lanka,
over a century ago and is now produced year round in the central highlands and
southern regions of this beautiful tropical island. Based on the altitude at
which it is grown tea is classified as high, medium or low grown teas.
The unique climatic conditions that prevail in
the central highlands of
Sri Lanka
produces the exquisite high grown Nuwara Eliya and Uva blends, which are
renowned for their taste and aroma. The medium grown teas provide a bold color
that is in demand by the consumers in
North America.
Lower grown tea plantations produce the leafy grades of tea from the tip of the
unopened tea shoot.
Until recently the tea produced in
Sri Lanka
was shipped in bulk and repacked in the major tea consuming countries. Our
company now has modern machinery and technology for tea bagging and packing to
expeditiously meet the needs of wholesale or retail customers and food service
companies in any part of the world.
Some of the advantages of packing tea in
Sri Lanka
are:
The freshness of quality
Ceylon
blends is retained when purchased by the consumer.
The authorized government lion symbol of the
Sri Lanka Tea Board guarantees that only quality
Ceylon
tea of specified blends are contained in the package.
The product could be obtained at competitive
prices by the consumers in
North America
but it would be a lower grade of
tea grown in plantations that produce the leafy grades of tea from the tip of the
unopened tea shoot.