History of Tea in Munnar

Emerald leaves flit under the bright beautiful blue sky. Sleek red dragonflies dart to and fro above the green wings catching the sunlight. The leave belongs to bushels tea long, winding ranks of them, vast fields of jade-colored shrubs sprawling for miles and miles and miles along rolling hills.

Munnar is situated 1600 above the sea level, is a hill station in the Indian state of Kerala, located in the Western Ghat mountain range. It is frequently compared with Kashmir and Darjeeling, iT centric mix hills and tea plantation make it a popular tourist destination.

Munnar prime attraction is a small museum devoted entirely to the local tea trade, and visitor’s to the museum are promptly treated to a short film telling the story of the region’s history. In Late 1877 British Resident John Daniel Munro visited Munnar while stelling the border dispute between the Kingdom of Travancore and the neighboring state of Madras. The tea hills in Munnar to be prime plantation land, Munro promptly leased them from local royal the august Rohini Thirunal Kerala Varma Valiya Raja. In 1880 a European tea planter named A.H. Sharp experimented with planting tea in the Munnar area, and tea rapidly became the region's most successful crop. In the early 1981s, the firm Finlay Muir & Company purchased 137,000 acres of tea estates in Munnar and formed the Tea Company to manage them. In 1973s the Tata group purchased the Finley company, subsidiary, Tata Tea Limited, fully took over the plantations of Munnar in 1983.