🕥 Lulkadura Tea Estate and James Taylor who gave 'Ceylon Tea' to the world 🕥

🕥 Lulkadura Tea Estate and James Taylor who gave 'Ceylon Tea' to the world 🕥
In 1867, James Taylor started the first commercial tea plantation in Kandy, Delthota Lulkadura Tea Estate, which introduced the taste of Sri Lankan tea 'Ceylon Tea' to the world.
🕚 James Taylor, who was born in Scotland on the twenty-ninth day of March 1835, came to Sri Lanka at the age of 17, i.e. 1852, and settled in Lulkadura Estate, which is forty-two kilometers from Kandy, on the border of Nuwara Eliya district. During this time coffee cultivation was in Sri Lanka and the coffee cultivation was destroyed due to a fungal disease called Hemileia vastatrix which formed on the coffee leaves. Therefore, he has started experiments on whether it is possible to start tea cultivation in this environment.

Earlier in 1824, the first tea plant in Sri Lanka was planted in the Peradeniya Botanical Garden. This belongs to the Assam variety and the well-grown tea tree can still be seen in the garden today. Later, after many studies and researches, he started the cultivation of the first tea plantation on a land of nineteen acres in 1962. He gradually developed tea cultivation and made great efforts to bring tea as the main export crop of Sri Lanka. It can also be seen that the first tea tree planted in the Lulkadura garden is still growing large. The Lulkadura tea plantation, which is four thousand and one hundred feet above sea level, is then spread over five sections. These are the five parts of Apargona, Lawergona, Lulkadura, Naranhena and Valoya.
At that time, the longest tea factory in Ceylon, which was three hundred and twenty five feet long, was built in Lulkadura estate, and now larger factories were built in other areas. Lulkadura Tea Estate can be reached from Kandy via Talathuoya Galaha Road and from Kandy via Peradeniya Deltota Road. One can see beautiful views when climbing the Kondagala rock plateau located in this environment, which is a small place that attracts local and foreign tourists.
The beautiful streams around can relieve fatigue. Many foreigners can be seen visiting this tea garden just to jump from this rock and go on parachutes. Many people also come to have fun by pitching tents at night in this area, which has a unique climate to the Nuwara Eliya area. A pound of tea powder, completely handmade, was one and fifty cents in the Sri Lankan market at that time. James Taylor, who loved Tea Dalla, died on the second day of May 1892 at the age of fifty-seven years, and his body was buried in Mahaiyava Cemetery, Kandy, and the tombstone can still be seen today. It took eight and a half hours for the estate workers to bring his body from Lulkadura to Mahaiya.
In his forty years of service, he took only one day off. This is another example we can take from him.

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