Sri Lanka - Katukitula - Tea factory

A female worker sorts and grades the High Grown unblended Ceylon Tea at the Glenloch tea factory in Katukitula, Sri Lanka. Grading is the last main stage in tea production. Picking, semidrying, rolling, drying, cleaning, fermenting are the 6 stages that proceed it. Many of the surrounding Tea factories were built in the last century, as the British planter, James Taylor in 1867, introduced tea to Sri Lanka. The Glen Loch Tea Factory still uses some British-made machinery, which is over 100 years old.

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A female worker sorts and grades the High Grown unblended Ceylon Tea at the Glenloch tea factory in Katukitula, Sri Lanka. Grading is the last main stage in tea production. Picking, semidrying, rolling, drying, cleaning, fermenting are the 6 stages that proceed it. Many of the surrounding Tea factories were built in the last century, as the British planter, James Taylor in 1867, introduced tea to Sri Lanka. The Glen Loch Tea Factory still uses some British-made machinery, which is over 100 years old.