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Sri Lanka's Low Grown tea price slip in August 1-week sale

Low-grown tea slipped over 100 rupees per kilogram

August 7, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka low-grown tea prices rise in July third week sale

On July 20 auction low grown averaged at 4.54 dollars per kilogram

July 31, 2022 4 min read

Sri Lanka’s Ceylon tea output down 22.7-pct in June 2022

Six months to June output dipped 17 percent.

July 24, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports down 12.6-pct in June 2022, rupee earnings up in soft-peg collapse.

US dollar earnings were down 6 percent to 116.5 million dollars in June from a year ago.

July 18, 2022 2 min read
Sri Lanka High and Low Growns tea prices fall at weekly auction

Majority of Low Growns prices also fell while Mid Growns prices grew.

Sri Lanka tea production up in May 2023

Production is expected to recover in 2023, with the fertilizer being applied.

Sri Lanka tea prices up 30-pct in June

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices continued to gain in June 2017, with the national average auction price up ...

August 3, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea production up in June

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea production in June rose 5.8% or by 1.5 million kilos from a year ago, with t...

July 24, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations to spin off tea business

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations is to separate its tea business and set up a new company th...

June 30, 2017 1 min read

Global shortage to keep tea prices high, Sri Lanka broker says

ECONOMYNEXT – Tea prices are expected to remain high for the rest of the year with production shortfalls in major...

June 15, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Kelani Valley tests revenue sharing model with workers

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan regional plantation company Kelani Valley Plantations is testing a revenue sharing model with w...

June 15, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices hit new monthly high in May

ECONOMYNEXT – Prices of low-grown teas in Sri Lanka, made mainly by small farmers in the south, hit a new monthly...

June 13, 2017 2 min read

Sharp decline in volume, quality anticipated at Sri Lanka tea auction

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan brokers are anticipating a sharp decline in both the quantity and quality of tea offered...

June 5, 2017 1 min read

Floods, landslides seen hitting Sri Lanka tea output

ECONOMYNEXT – Recent floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Sri Lanka could disrupt tea produc...

June 1, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea shipments down in April 2017, earnings up

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan’s tea exports fell 9 percent to 20.1 million kilos in April 2017 from a year ago, but ea...

May 25, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Watawala Plantations March quarter net profit up 168-pct

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations said net profit rose 168 percent to 212 million rupees in the Marc...

May 24, 2017 2 min read
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Sri Lanka plantations firms borrow from UK parent

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Hapugastenne Plantations and Udapussellawa Plantations plan to take fresh loans ...

May 22, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Kelani Valley Plantations March net doubles to Rs277mn

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Kelani Valley Plantations said net profit for the March 2017 quarter more than d...

May 17, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea broker invests Rs233mn to get land for warehouse

ECONOMYNEXT – Ceylon Tea Brokers, a Sri Lankan tea brokerage, said it had acquired a subsidiary of another broker...

May 12, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea gaining market share in China

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea is increasing market share in China whose imports of the beverage are growing despit...

May 12, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices hit new high in March

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices continued their rise in March this year with the Colombo auction average for ...

April 7, 2017 2 min read

Audit reveals Sri Lanka Agalawatte Plantations loss over Rs1.2bn

ECONOMYNEXT – Re-audited accounts of Sri Lanka’s Agalawatte Plantations have revealed over Rs4.5 billion a...

April 4, 2017 2 min read

Global shortfall, higher demand keep Sri Lankan tea prices high

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices are seen remaining high this year on account of the global shortfall in produ...

March 31, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Udapussellawa Plantations imports fertiliser after subsidy withdrawal

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s Udapussellawa Plantations, part of the Finlays Colombo group, said it had resorted to i...

March 29, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Browns sells 61-pct stake Agalawatte Plantations

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Browns Group has sold a 61% stake in Agalawatte Plantations to D. R. Investment ...

March 27, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka February tea export prices up, volumes at eight-year low

ECONOMYNEXT – Tea export volumes from Sri Lanka fell 5 percent to 22.4 million kilos in February 2017 from a year...

March 24, 2017 1 min read