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Sri Lanka tea prices dip

Prices ease in the second week

July 18, 2021 3 min read

Sri Lanka tea production up 5.8-pct in May 2021

In the five months to May 2021 Sri Lanka had produced 134.72mn kilograms up 30.6-pct from Covid-19 hit

July 17, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports down 2-pct in Feb 2021, China buys more

Sri Lanka's tea exports fell 2.07 percent from a year ago to 23.16 million kilograms in February 2021, while revenues in...

March 28, 2021 1 min read

Restarting South Asia: The Tea industry faces up to its challenges

The coronavirus pandemic wrought havoc on almost all walks of life, and the various industries ranging from commodities,...

March 23, 2021 6 min read
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,

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

New warehouse doubles capacity for Sri Lanka’s Asia Siyaka

Sri Lankan broker Asia Siyaka Commodities PLC said the commissioning of a new warehouse will double storage capacity and...

July 7, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports in May 2016 down 23-pct

Sri Lanka’s tea export volumes in May 2016 fell by almost a quarter from a year ago with the unit value of export...

June 25, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lankan plantations offer hybrid attendance-output wage model

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) have announced they have offered labour uni...

June 24, 2016 5 min read

Sri Lanka May 2016 tea crop down 06-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea production in May 2016 fell almost six percent to 30.6 million kilos from a ...

June 23, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea trade says poor quality depressing prices

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea traders have called on producers to focus more on improving quality, saying poor qua...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 20, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Zesta premium tea at Shangri-La hotels

Sri Lanka's Watawala Tea Ceylon, a unit of listed Sunshine Holdings Plc, has struck a deal to supply its 'Zesta Connoiss...

June 18, 2016 2 min read

Quality focus cuts tea losses at Sri Lanka Watawala Plantations

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations said a shift to focusing on quality helped it reduces losse...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 10, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea crops reduced by floods, landslides

ECONOMYNEXT – Although volumes at Colombo’s tea auction have been high so far, heavy rains that caused flo...

June 3, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Kelani Valley expands to cinnamon as tea loses shine

ECONOMYNEXT - Kelani Valley Plantations, a unit of Sri Lanka's Hayleys group said it is expanding into cinnamon cultivat...

May 27, 2016 2 min read

Rains disrupt Sri Lanka tea production, transport

ECONOMYNEXT – Heavy rains that have triggered earthslips and floods in Sri Lanka have disrupted tea production an...

May 19, 2016 1 min read
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Sri Lankan tea exports to Russia fall sharply

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea exports to Russia and other former Soviet states has fallen sharply in recent years,...

May 14, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka raises fines for sub-standard tea

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will sharply raise fines to crack down on the sale of ‘refuse tea’ or tea wa...

May 11, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka March tea output lowest in six years

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea production in March 2016, which was down 27.5 percent from a year earlier ow...

May 10, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka considering liberalising tea imports for blending

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is seriously considering a proposal to open up the tea sector and allow imports for blend...

May 9, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka unions ready to consider outgrower model: plantations minister

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka intends to try out an outgrower model on its tea plantations, with labour unions having a...

May 8, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka high grown teas gain in March

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices in March 2016 remained below those of a year ago with the exception of high g...

April 8, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka plantations oppose political influence on wage talks

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s regional plantations companies have called on the government not to interfere in...

March 31, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka plantations wage talks deadlocked

ECONOMYNEXT – Talks on a new collective wage agreement between Sri Lanka’s regional plantations companies ...

March 31, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka allocates Rs2bn for tea, rubber small farmer subsidies

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s plantation industries minister Navin Dissanayake said the Treasury has agreed t...

March 30, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports recover in February 2016

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea export shipments and local currency earnings rose slightly in February 2016 ...

March 25, 2016 1 min read