Mauritius Tea

Mauritius produces tea, but tea plants are not cultivated on large surfaces, the production is enough for the local market and some are exported but not enough to export in large quantity.
Tea has been introduced during the French colonization which was around 1765.

There is in Mauritius around six active estates cultivating tea on the island. There are four factories which are operated by the Mauritius Tea Company and two others are private Bois Cheri and Corson, the two main teas seen in the supermarkets. Bois Cheri produces for both local and exportation market, Corson is mainly for local market.

Most Mauritian mainly drinks tea more than coffee. Mauritian usually drinks one kilo of tea per person.

Most of them use to drink tea with milk never without, they can’t stand drinking just pure tea.

In 1760, a French priest named Father Galloys introduced a tea plant called Camellia Sinensis and in 1770, Pierre Poivre planted the tea plant in large scale.

Until the British arrived, the tea was more a museum plant. It was only when the Governor Robert

Farquar was governing that he encouraged in tea cultivation he even had a tea garden at Le Réduit but when he left the island, the plantation was abandoned.