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Tea Gem and Natural resources |
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Tea estates in up country.
Elephant was a very important animal to the Sri Lankans since long time ago. Elephant is related to their culture, tradition and the religion too. They often use for pageant ceremonies and also for transportation of logs. It is a precious animal; to avoid ceasing the killing is prohibited.
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The economy of the Island is predominantly
agricultural and is heavily dependent on the growing and export of three
cash crops - tea, rubber and coconuts. Together these earned about
90 per cent of Ceylon's foreign exchange in 1967. Tea alone
accounted for about 63 per cent of the total foreign exchange
earnings. The country's heavy import bill is met from the earnings
of these agricultural commodities.
Most railways were built in Sri Lanka during the British Regime. They wanted to transport tea from up country to the harbour which is in the West Coast of the Island. Modern days, these trains use for the public transportation.
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Tea remains Sri Lanka's certainty. Not only is it the island's chief export, but the island supplies nearly a third of the world's tea, and it seems unlikely that anybody is going to invent a synthetic product that will supplant the finest Ceylonese tea. This grows at a fairly high altitude, usually over four thousand feet; tea of inferior quality may be cultivated on slopes as low as fifteen hundred feet above sea level. Like rubber, the tea industry in Sri Lanka is only about one hundred years old.
En Elephant made by Gems. |
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some people use Elephants for transporting
heavy things as logs.