Two new varieties of tea plants introduced
K. G. de Silva Kamburupitiya group corr.
The Tea Smallholding Authority has introduced two new varieties of
tea plants belonging to the TRI 3000 and 4000 series which are resistant
to drought and diseases.
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Something new |
| * TRI 3000
and 4000 series gives better crop
* Resistant to drought, diseases
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It also gives a better crop than the other varieties.
Steps have been taken to propagate these two new varieties of tea
among cultivators through the tea plantations belonging to the Tee
Shakthi Tea Factory of Mawarala as packeted plants and pure cuttings.
Cultivators could obtain cuttings from the newly introduced high grade
tea plant species for their nurseries from this tea estate.
The Mawarala Tea Plantation has already issued some 165,786 cuttings
for smallholder cultivators.
Meanwhile, 6,000 cuttings of the new cloned 4,042 variety of tea had
also been issued among tea cultivators in Beralapanatara, Dampahala Tea
Inspectors areas for re-planting. |
