International Tea Day 2022: Do You Know Who Introduced Tea in India?

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International Tea Day in 2022 Is Observed on May 21ST to Celebrate the International Tea Trade

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It is also observed to enlighten about the impact of the tea trade globally on the tea estate owners and workers in them.

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Now, let’s know some amazing information about who introduced tea in India.

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Britishers discovered tea in India in the 1800s and cultivated it in huge quantities.

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Around the 1780s, they got tea seeds from China and started to cultivate the plant in India.

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Later, it was seen growing wild in Brahmaputra Valley by Sir Joseph Banks, an English Botanist.

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Around 1823, the cultivated Indian tea was transported to England for selling in public.

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It was explored and realised that growing tea at the foothills of the Himalayas was feasible. Henceforth, India started its mass production.

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