Producer
New Vithanakande Tea Estate
Chamikara Pilapitiya
New Vithanakande is a family plantation taken over by the Pilapitiya family in 1940, a former British plantation named Delwala where the late Punchi Bandara Herath Pilapitiya, the founder of the Tea Estate, worked. The land was called Vithanakande, from Kande the mountain in Sinhalese, and Vithana from the Vithanage family who had been entrusted with these lands during the reign of Sitawaka Rajasinha (1581-1593). The term New was added by Navaratna Pilapitiya,...