There appears to be no record whatsoever to indicate that tea was ever
planted on a commercial scale in Goa. However, there is record of coffee
plantation. According to A.B.Braganca Pereira (Ethnography of Goa, Daman
Diu page 154 Large scale coffee plantations are found in Sattari). The
Book written sometime in 1940 details all the crops grown in Goa and tea is
not mentioned.
It may be noted that in recent times hybrid heat resistant varieties of tea
plants have emerged and I have myself seen such plantations in Siliguri in
West Bengal where the weather is as hot as in Goa. I myself have a two year
old potted tea plant which seems to grow well.
Attached hereto is the photograph of my tea plant
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:18 PM, eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com wrote:
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From: alan machado
Tea needs an elevated and cool region and so is grown in some places on
the inland slopes of the western ghats- Kelagur and a few other estates-
very limited unlike coffee. Goa does not have this climate though I read
some where of some wild coffee bushes- perhaps some experiment
Further inland to the south east you get the higher Nilgiri mountains
where tea is grown extensively. Then you go to the Himalayas- Assam and
Darjeeling. That's it for India
Alan Machado
Thanks to Frederick Noronha.
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On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:51 AM, William Robert Da Silva wrote:
There was once a D(eputy) C(ommissioner), Mangalore, in undivided South
Kanara, a researcher in his own right while in bureaucratic harness. His
name: H. L. Nagegawda. He translated as many as possible European
travellers' -logue into Kannada in many volumes, called 'Pravaasi kann'da
Indiaa.' You have material there on Coffee and Tea as discussed by
travellers. He also wrote a monograph, Bet'ttadinda bat'ttalige (From
Ghat to Glas), the story of divine elixir, kavveh of the Ethiopeans; and
chai of Chinese (this latter partly). Later he turned to folklore and
established a Folklore Museum, singlehanded. It is worth a visit.
In Western ghats, besides Nilgiris, there is Kelaguru and Meguru;
Kellaruuruu Matthias's cultivated tea; I have visited and passed days in
their estate, celebrating Eucharist in their private chapel, in 1970s. I
have also seen the Tea picking, Two leaves and a bud'; the process of
various types of tea, until the 'dust tea' is left - famous in south India,
cooked with milk, ginger, etc. and drunk. It is not merely boiled but
cooked! This tea is called KeLgur Tea.'
William
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From: Mário Moura
Dear
My name is Mário Moura, I am a PHD History sudent, I was born, raised
and live in Azores, Saint Michael's Island, Portugal as I am completing a
seminar on tea production and exportation in the ancient colonial
portuguese empire, I wonder if you know if tea has been grown in Goa or
elsewhere?
Mário Moura
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