High yielding tea variety introduced

Asela KURULUWANSA

A high-yielding new tea variety having resistance to any climatic condition has been introduced by a team of tea experts headed by Talawakele Tea Research Institute Chief Dr Kumudini Gunasekera. Research conducted by the tea experts have revealed that a hectare of this new variety of tea brings a harvest of 2,500 kilograms.

Meanwhile, the Tea Research Institute has drawn the attention of tea cultivators to a system to obtain seeds from tea plants.

The research team which is introducing this new method said that this system has proved successful as it too had brought high yields.

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