Sri Lanka is one of the world’s top tea exporters.
But what did the British originally grow there before switching to tea?

Coffee.. A coffee-leaf rust epidemic in the 1860s destroyed the plantations. The British replanted with tea. Blight reshaped an economy.

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Coffee. — A coffee-leaf rust epidemic in the 1860s destroyed the plantations. The British replanted with tea. Blight reshaped an economy.