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Sri Lanka tea exporter cashflows hit by payment delays from Coronavirus pandemic

Finances of Sri Lanka's tea exporters have been hit by delayed payments from international buyers due to a Coronavirus p...

September 29, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Ceylon Tea prices may get boost from Russian winter buying

Sri Lanka tea prices mixed as industry expects Russia winter buying to slightly boost the market, with the cheaper High ...

September 27, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka tea production down 14-pct in August

Sri Lanka's tea production had fallen 14 percent from a year ago to 22.42 million kilograms in August 2020 from 26.2 mil...

September 25, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka low grown Ceylon teas pick up

Sri Lanka's high priced Low Grown teas prices picked in the first auction of September, while cheaper high grown teas to...

September 14, 2020 4 min read
Sri Lanka’s Ceylon tea prices up amid low volumes

Prices of all High, Medium and Low Growns saw an increase during the auction.

Sri Lanka High and Medium Grown tea prices fall at weekly auction

The weekly sale average increased from 1428.59 rupees to 1451.35 rupees from a week ago, according to data.

Sri Lanka plantations firms warn of higher losses from wage hike

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan plantations companies have warned that a wage hike demanded by labour unions would incre...

December 17, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea production lower in 2015

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea production this year is expected to be lower than last year as rains disrupt...

December 16, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka, Save the Children tackle poverty, anaemia on estates

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government and plantations companies have begun working with Save the Children t...

December 15, 2015 3 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices perk up

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan tea prices perked up at the weekly Colombo auctions possibly in response to urgent orders for t...

December 14, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea crop lowest in three years

ECONOMYNEXT – Heavy rains and poor prices have reduced Sri Lanka’s tea output this year to a three-year lo...

December 5, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lankan tea prices edge up but still below 2014 levels

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices improved in November from the previous month, with the highest gains in low g...

December 4, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports to Japan fall sharply

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea exports to Japan, considered a discerning market, have fallen sharply this y...

November 27, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea bag exports fall in October

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s exports of tea bags, which earn more than bulk tea, fell again in October 2015 f...

November 26, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea plantations credit under pressure with low prices: Fitch

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's plantations firms which get more than 50 percent of their revenue from tea has seen their cred...

November 17, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Kelani Valley Plantations losses widen in Sept quarter

ECONOMYNEXT – Losses at Sri Lanka's Kelani Valley Plantations shot up to 88 million rupees in the September 2015 ...

November 9, 2015 1 min read
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Sri Lanka Talawakelle Tea makes Sept quarter loss

ECONOMYNEXT – Talawakelle Tea Estates PLC, part of Sri Lanka’s Hayleys group, slipped into the red in the ...

November 3, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka Tea Smallholder Factories makes loss in Sept quarter

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

November 2, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka govt intervenes to prop up tea prices: report

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lanka Tea Board is to intervene at Colombo’s tea auctions for the first tie in seven...

November 1, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea price recovery limited, most still selling below cost

ECONOMYNEXT – Despite a slight upturn in tea prices at recent auctions the recovery has been confined only to the...

October 30, 2015 1 min read

Palm oil props up Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations September profit

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations said September 2015 quarter net profit shot up 320 percent ...

October 26, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka low grown tea prices recover

ECONOMYNEXT – The slump in Sri Lanka’s tea export shipments and earnings continued in September 2015 but d...

October 26, 2015 2 min read

Poor earnings forecast for Sri Lanka plantations firms

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan plantations companies are expected to have another poor earnings quarter with commodity ...

October 22, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka plantations lose Rs80 per kilo of tea

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s regional plantations companies (RPCs) have offered a revenue sharing model with ...

October 21, 2015 2 min read

Tea helps turn trade balance with Poland in Sri Lanka’s favour

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan exports of traditional products like tea have helped turn the balance of trade with Pola...

October 8, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices stagnate below 2013 levels

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices have fallen to their lowest levels since March 2012 with low grown varieties,...

October 8, 2015 2 min read