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Up to October 211 million were exported
Tea is Sri Lanka's main export crop and earns over $1.5 billion export revenue annually.
Rupee average rose to as much as 1676.93 rupees a kilo in the first week of October.
The cost of production of tea growers has steeply risen by 30-35 percent so far this year
Tea export revenues fell 3.8 percent to 119.63 million US dollars in Aug 2023 from 124.4 mn US dollars a year ago
Sri Lanka exported 22.7 million kilograms of tea in July, down marginally from 44.7 million kilograms last year.
Sri Lanka's tea farm managers say a ban on the popular weedicide glyphosate without using scientific evidence, which end...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea production, which has been hit badly in recent years by bad weather, is seen increas...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea export earnings rose sharply in January 2018 from a year ago, as the crop al...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Hatton Plantations, which debuted on the Colombo Stock Exchange last Friday, made a net profit...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Talawakelle Tea Estates said net profit almost doubled to Rs153.6 million in the...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea factories owned by people who adulterate black tea to get higher prices will be shut...
ECONMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Minister of Plantation Industries Naveen Dissanayake said he wants to focus on cl...
ECONOMYNEXT – Turkey sharply increased imports of Sri Lankan tea in 2017 for blending and re-export, emerging as ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea exports to China surged 30% to 9.9 million kilos in 2017 from the year befor...
ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka’s tea industry recovered in 2017 with the crop up 5% to 307 million kilos from a ye...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 332.5018 | 332.3603 |
| UK Pound | 440.0661 | 440.9424 |
| Euro | 367.7137 | 368.4879 |
| Yen | 2.0793 | 2.0805 |
| Aus Dollar | 226.4670 | 227.4342 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.5357 | 3.5474 |
| Korean Won | 0.2494 | 0.2492 |
| Oman Rial | 863.5962 | 863.2287 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5939 | 88.5586 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.5259 | 90.4874 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 6,293.72 | -1.13% |
| CSE All Share | 22,024.18 | -0.60% |
| Turnover Rs | 3232.70 million | 2975.05 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government plans to set up a monitoring agency to closely supervise the work of regi...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is to enter into an agreement on agricultural cooperation with Turkey, one of the main markets ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan plantations companies have called for improved phytosanitary surveillance and quarantine...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government is to promote black tea consumption in China and also hold tea auctions t...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s plantations industry has called for more support for palm oil as profits from th...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Agarapatana Plantations, which is making a cash call having suffered a serious l...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea exports rose 10% or by 2.6 million kilos to 25.5 million kilos in October 2017 from ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has awarded Dentsu Grant (Pvt) Ltd. a Rs220 million contract for consultancy services for...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan regional plantation company Kelani Valley Plantations said its net loss for the September 2017 ...
ECONOMYNEXT - Tea Smallholder Factories, which makes black tea from leaves bought from Sri Lankan small farmers, said ne...
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