BRITISH-GROWN TEA.
About £35,000,000 of British capital is invested in tea-growim*: in India and Ceylon. The land under tea in those countries amounted in 1895 to 755,000 acres, the acres in bearing to 637,000, the crop produced to 233,500,0001b-*, and the labour, or " hands " employed to 890,000. What may be termed British-grown tea has during the last thirty years greatly displaced former sources of supply. For 1896 the Home consumption of British-grown tea was 89 per cent., and that of China and other teas only 11 per cent., in contrast with a consumption i_ 1868 of but 7 per cent, of British-grown tea and 93 per cent, of China and other teas. Most people have known that this change has < been going on, but. few will be prepared to find how remarkable the development has been.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9739, 29 May 1897, Page 7
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