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Sri Lanka's High Grown Ceylon tea prices edge lower

This week 5.1 million kilograms were offered at the auction made up of 0.7 million kilograms of High Growns.

December 18, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices move up in Dec first-week auction

Low grown and Medium grown teas gain

December 11, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka October Ceylon tea production down in 27-years

October production was mainly hit by bad weather

November 25, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices arrest slide in low volumes

Last week the average low grown price was 1,401.30 rupees.

November 20, 2022 3 min read
Sri Lanka smallholder tea growers still find fertiliser expensive 

Small holders were also offered an interest free loan to help apply fertilizer.

Reserve funds mooted to help Sri Lankan plantations ride commodity downturns

ECONOMYNEXT – The creation of financial reserves to help Sri Lankan regional plantations companies (RPCs) ride ou...

August 30, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Talawakelle Tea June quarter profit flat

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Talawakelle Tea Estates June 2018 quarter was virtually flat at 46 million rupee...

August 7, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka to reimburse tea exporter promotional costs

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government is to reimburse 19 tea exporters half their international promotional cos...

July 25, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka may lose Japan tea market due to continued glyphosate ban

Sri Lanka is facing the risk of a complete ban on tea exports to Japan due to the use of alternative weedicides to glyph...

July 2, 2018 3 min read

Sri Lanka’s Hatton Plantations to build more tea factories

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Hatton Plantations PLC plans to build more tea factories as it seeks to take adv...

June 8, 2018 2 min read

Tough going for Sri Lanka tea extracts business

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Hayleys group has said its tea extracts business has found the going slow owing ...

June 7, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea auction average prices slip below 2017 levels

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices fell at this week’s Colombo auction with the cumulative auction averag...

June 7, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka plantations should start wage negotiations early: minister

Sri Lanka's regional plantations companies - commercial farms growing tea, rubber and oil palm - should start wage negot...

June 3, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka floods to hit tea supplies to auctions

Sri Lanka's torrential rains are expected to disrupt tea supplies and reduce volume coming to forthcoming auctions, thou...

May 24, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lankan tea prices rise on weaker rupee, lower volumes

ECONOMYNEXT – Prices of several grades of Sri Lankan tea rose sharly at this week’s one-day auction in Col...

May 3, 2018 1 min read
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Sri Lanka's glyphosate ban cost Rs35bn in crop losses: farm managers

Sri Lanka's tea farm managers say a ban on the popular weedicide glyphosate without using scientific evidence, which end...

May 2, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea crop seen increasing as rains return

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea production, which has been hit badly in recent years by bad weather, is seen increas...

March 16, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka packeted tea exports fall in January

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea export earnings rose sharply in January 2018 from a year ago, as the crop al...

February 23, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Hatton Plantations December net profit Rs94mn

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Hatton Plantations, which debuted on the Colombo Stock Exchange last Friday, made a net profit...

February 9, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Talawakelle Tea December quarter profit almost doubles

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Talawakelle Tea Estates said net profit almost doubled to Rs153.6 million in the...

February 1, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka Tea Board to put criminal factory owners out of business

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea factories owned by people who adulterate black tea to get higher prices will be shut...

January 30, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka to crackdown on tea trade corruption

ECONMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Minister of Plantation Industries Naveen Dissanayake said he wants to focus on cl...

January 26, 2018 2 min read

Turkey buys more Sri Lankan tea for blending, re-export

ECONOMYNEXT – Turkey sharply increased imports of Sri Lankan tea in 2017 for blending and re-export, emerging as ...

January 25, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lankan tea exports to China up 30-pct in 2017

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea exports to China surged 30% to 9.9 million kilos in 2017 from the year befor...

January 25, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka 2017 tea production up 5-pct to 307mn kg, exports $1.5bn

ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka’s tea industry recovered in 2017 with the crop up 5% to 307 million kilos from a ye...

January 25, 2018 1 min read