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CWC Leaders thank Mahinda for the daily wage increase

Members of Parliament from the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) are thanking Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa for succeedin...

February 9, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka to take-over plantations company hospitals with land

Sri Lanka has decided to take over estate hospitals that are operated by a number of plantations companies along with la...

January 8, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea plantations propose new wages based on smallholder model

Sri Lanka's Regional Plantations Companies have proposed new wages based on small holders, which the firms sau can raise...

December 24, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka tea production up 10-pct October 2020

Sri Lanka had produced 23.4 million kilograms in October 2020, up 10.3 percent from a year earlier, thought cumulative ...

December 21, 2020 1 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.

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

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
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Sri Lanka tea plantations improve harvests with mechanization

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) say experiments with mechanization like use...

March 22, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Finlays loses Syrian tea market

ECONMYNEXT – Finlays Colombo, a Sri Lankan tea exporters that is part of Britain’s Swire group, has comple...

March 14, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka February tea prices at two-year low

ECONOMYNEXT – Prices at Sri Lanka’s tea auction in Colombo in February remained below the levels two years...

March 8, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka January tea export earnings slump to six-year low

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea exports in January 2016 fell to their lowest level in US dollar terms in six...

February 28, 2016 1 min read

Losses narrow at Sri Lanka Tea Smallholder Factories

ECONOMYNEXT - Tea Smallholder Factories, which makes black tea from leaves bought from Sri Lankan small farmers, remaine...

February 2, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka small farmer tea production falls sharply

ECONOMYNEXT – Tea small holders in southern Sri Lanka have been among the worst affected by the prolonged slump i...

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January 31, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka Watawala Plantations December net profit up 28-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations said net profit for the December 2015 quarter rose 28 perce...

January 26, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka govt to step up monitoring of private plantations firms

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government will strengthen monitoring of state plantations under private managem...

January 15, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports drop sharply in November

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea exports fell nine percent to 26.3 million kilos in November 2015 from a year ago wit...

December 26, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka annual tea crop seen at three-year low

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s November 2015 tea crop was the lowest in seven years with the island’s an...

December 24, 2015 1 min read