In our country 6 % of tea plantation areas that began to establish since 1938 and spead out 767,000 decars and all of  them established with tea seeds have been completed their economical lives.For the improvement and rehabilitation of tea culture that is the main source of  living in East Black Tea Region, it is necessary to renew the tea plantation which have been established with seeds and completed their economical lives.According to the renewation program, high productive selected tea clones must be replaced with low productive old tea bushes, respectively

    Tea seedlings which are propagated from selected tea cuttings have the same properties with its full grown tea bushes.Tea gardens which are established with the same selected tea clones that have high quality, high productivity, high resistance against pest and diseases, high adaptation ability to the environmental conditions have the same identical properties.For that reason,the method of clonal propagation is used all of the tea producing countries.

    The success of clonal propagation depends on the determination of the full grown tea bushes which has high quality, high productivity, high resistance against pests and diseases in different ecological conditions by means of a successful clonal propagation methods.