1. About Rs. 90,000 of capital is necessary to make a plantation as quick as this. If made more gradually, very much less would suffice.
2. There is no yearly profit until the fifth year.
3. By the eighth year all the outlay is recovered.
This table has been prepared with great care, and the authority for the figures assumed has been arrived at in previous parts. (See headings of the Cols. for the pages and note at foot.)
At the following pages will be found the calculations for the figures assumed:—Col. 2, page [170]; Col. 8, pages [70] and [162]; Col. 10, pages [164], [165], [166].
I believe this table represents truly what Tea, with all the necessary advantages detailed in the next page, can do.
The necessities for success in Tea are:—
- 1. A good climate.
- 2. A good site.
- 3. Perfect knowledge in Tea cultivation and Tea manufacture on the proprietor’s part or that of his manager.
- 4. Seed from a high class of plants.
- 5. Local or cheap imported labour.
- 6. Facilities for manuring.
- 7. Cheap transport.
Do not dispense, though, with even one of the seven points named, for the truth is simply, that Tea will pay very well with all the above advantages, but will utterly fail without them.