Exports
Cedar is a leading exporter of Pure Ceylon Tea, Moringa Tea, Moringa Powder, which could be supplied under your brand and in a selection of different packaging such as Tea Bags, Packets, bulk or in Specialty Packaging.
Products
Ceylon Tea, Moringa Tea, Moringa Powder, Coconut Products, Natural Rubber, Australian Wine, Lamb, Beef, Dairy products
Heritage
Cedar delivers Sri Lanka's best quality to Europe, the Middle East, Far East & Oceania.
Ceylon Tea ~ A Story Worth Telling
“…the tea fields of Ceylon are as true a monument to courage as is the lion at Waterloo”
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The story of Ceylon tea begins over two hundred years ago, when Sri Lanka was still a British colony. Coffee was the dominant crop on the island.
During the 1860's the coffee plantations were struck by disease. As the coffee crop died, planters switched to the production and cultivation of tea. The first experimental plants of tea arrived from Assam and Calcutta through the East India Company and commercial cultivation of tea commenced in 1867.
James Taylor, a Scotsman, played a significant role in the development of Ceylon Tea. Taylor experimented with tea cultivation and leaf manipulation to obtain the best possible flavour. By the 1880s almost all the coffee plantations in Ceylon had been converted to tea. Coffee stores were rapidly converted to tea factories to meet the demand for tea. As tea production in Ceylon progressed, new factories were constructed, and an element of mechanization was introduced. Today Ceylon Tea has become one of the key foreign exchange earners in Sri Lanka.