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Sri Lanka High and Medium Grown tea prices fall at weekly auction

The weekly sale average fell to 1271.28 rupees from 1282.01 rupees a week ago,

April 2, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka canteens to cut milk tea price after rupee appreciation

From next week the maximum price of a cup of milk tea will be 90 rupees

March 29, 2023 3 min read

Sri Lanka February Ceylon tea production up 3.04-pct

The national average tea price in February was 3.97 dollars or 1,438.20 rupees.

March 26, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Ceylon Tea prices stabilize after falling on rupee appreciation

The weekly sale average grew to 1282.01 rupees from 1256.96 rupees from a week ago

March 26, 2023 2 min read
India begins construction of 1,300 houses for Sri Lanka plantation workers

Housing project financed by the Government of India to construct 10,000 houses for plantation sector workers.

Sri Lanka tea prices fall across elevations

Tea prices ease after 7 weeks of gains

Chemical residue tests for Sri Lanka tea exports in German, Taiwan markets

Sri Lankan tea exporters are facing new hurdles in the form of tough tests for chemical residues in markets like Germany...

November 21, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka Tea Smallholder Factories loss narrows in Sept quarter

Tea Smallholder Factories, which makes black tea from leaves bought from Sri Lankan small farmers, said losses narrowed ...

October 25, 2019 1 min read

Tea Smallholder Factories get top Sri Lanka award for CTC tea

Tea Smallholder Factories Plc, a unit of John Keells Holdings had been recognized as the top producer of CTC tea (crush ...

September 22, 2019 1 min read

Warehousing profits help Sri Lanka’s Asia Siyaka offset brokerage decline

Improved use of its warehousing, which was doubled in recent years, has helped Sri Lanka’s Asia Siyaka Commodities off...

September 6, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka sets US$3.5bn tea export target for 2030

Sri Lanka is targeting 3.5 billion US dollars in foreign exchange and 350 million kilogrammes of tea production by 2030,...

August 12, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka mulls reforms to punish 'errant' plantation companies

Errant Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) in Sri Lanka need to be punished under new reforms to be brought in the futu...

August 10, 2019 2 min read

Navin threatens to expose Sri Lanka Provincial Governor

Sri Lanka's Plantations Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake has threatened to expose a Provincial Governor who is pres...

Chanka Jayasinghe
July 28, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea farms to get billion rupees a year for re-planting: Minister

Sri Lanka will give one billion rupees a year to tea farms from a levy charged on exports, to fund help fund old tea bus...

July 25, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka to cut tea marketing levy on exports

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of ministers has approved a proposal by the Plantation Industries Minist...

July 22, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka govt ready to extend estate leases if more investments made

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government is willing to consider extending leases of plantations to private man...

July 22, 2019 2 min read
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Sri Lankan factories using sugar in tea face prosecution

Factories using sugar in the process of making Sri Lanka’s main agricultural export, Ceylon tea, will face prosec...

July 19, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka's global tea campaign starts Sept, social media focus

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will start a long-delayed global campaign to promote its main agricultural export, Ceylon...

July 18, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lankan tea prices slide, buyers shift to cheaper origins

Prices of Sri Lankan tea have been sliding despite their reputation for quality, owing to increased volume and comparati...

Tania Madies
July 4, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices continue slide on bigger volumes, lower quality

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lankan tea prices are continuing a steady decline this year compared with last year, a senior industry ...

Tania Madies
June 18, 2019 1 min read

Tea prices in Sri Lanka weaker in 2019

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka’s tea prices are lower this year in the five months to May compared with last year, includ...

June 7, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka Talawakelle Tea trials revenue sharing model with estate workers

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s Talawakelle Tea Estates has begun trials on a new revenue sharing model with workers o...

June 4, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka Tea Board looks to double replanting subsidy

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Tea Board is considering doubling a government subsidy for replanting tea bushes as part of effo...

Tania Madies
June 3, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka low grown tea recovery expected in 2019 despite Iran sanctions

Sri Lanka's low grown tea is expected to recover in 2018 despite sanctions on Iran, a top producer has said as a demand ...

May 26, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea industry unaffected by bombings, weather

ECONOMYNEXT –Production and sales of tea, Sri Lanka’s main export crop, are looking favorable this year de...

May 24, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Nayapane Estate gets record price for ‘BOP Fanning Grade’ tea

ECONOMYNEXT – Nayapane estate tea factory, managed by Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence Plantations Management, ha...

May 2, 2019 1 min read