Question

What is called the Tea port of india?

Answer 1

KolKata Is The Answer...............................

Answer 2

Kolkata is called the Tea port of India

Explanation:

• In the 18th century, the East India Company traded British woolens and Indian cottons for Chinese tea, porcelain, and silk. Tea imports soon became the largest single item in Britain's trading account since the British became very much addicted to Chinese tea. Conversely, the export to China of British and Indian goods began to decline and trade imbalance between Britain and China occurred as a result.

• The shortage of silver to pay for the tea imports forced the British to seek other commodities to compensate for the loss and to bring in profit. They discovered opium, a highly lucrative commodity. Although never directly involved in the sale of opium, which was banned in China by Imperial edict of 1729 as an illegal drug, the East India Company was responsible for most of its production in India, mainly for its medicinal value. The actual business of selling opium was conducted through private agencies.

• Hence, the East India Company tried to come up with a plan of how to solve this problem. They decided that they will try to come up with ways to grow similar tea plants in their colony India. With the help of Robert Fortune, a Scottish botanist they managed to smuggle out some tea saplings as samples out of China. Extensive research at the Royal Botanical Garden at Kolkata(now named Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden) followed.

• The British were confident that in such a topographically diverse country like India there should exist some place which would be similar to the geographical features of China and be ideal for tea cultivation. It turned out that the hills of Darjeeling and Assam were the closest to Chinese conditions. The strategy was a huge success as the tea cultivated in Darjeeling and Assam turned out to be even better than their Chinese counterparts. This completely reversed the trade balance as now the East India Company were exporting tea to China as well as sending a lot back home to England.

• The Tea Board of India was set up in Kolkata and its is still headquartered there. All the tea trade was carried out from the Kolkata port.Hence, Kolkata came to be known as the tea port of India.

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