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Ceylon tea prices ease in September first week

ri Lanka tea prices eased with only a few high and medium grown teas seeing gains in the first auction for September, br...

September 5, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka low grown teas ease, some high growns up

Sri Lanka's Low Growns, the most expensive teas produced by the island eased at the last auction in August while the che...

August 31, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka high grown teas see pick up

Sri Lanka's High Grown teas, the cheapest teas in the island, saw a slight pick up in the first sale in August amid fair...

August 17, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka tea buyers led by Iraq, Turkey, Russia in 2020 first half

Sri Lanka produced 129.04 million tonnes of tea in the first half of 2020 down 18.76 percent from a year earlier, and ex...

July 29, 2020 2 min read
Sri Lanka January Ceylon tea production down 16.1-pct

Sri Lanka tea production for January 2023 was 19.14 million kilograms down from 22.8 million kilograms a year ago.

Sri Lanka’s high grown Ceylon Teas gain

While Medium Growns fell at the auction on February 14

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
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Sri Lanka tea exports fall sharply in August

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea export shipments and earnings fell in August 2015 from a year ago with value...

September 24, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka plantations say survival depends on new work model

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s plantations industry has called for labour unions to accept a proposed revenue s...

September 13, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Bogawantalawa Tea gets into green and organic tea production

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Bogawantalawa Tea Estates says it is diversifying into production of green tea a...

September 11, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lankan tea prices rise after rupee depreciation

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices rose at this week’s Colombo auctions following the sharp depreciation ...

September 10, 2015 2 min read

Great quarantine wall of China seen blocking Sri Lankan exports

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan exporters have complained that non-tariff barriers like quarantine rules are blocking th...

Rohan Gunasekera
September 8, 2015 2 min read

Packers want tea at $2/kg, Sri Lanka tea trade warned

ECONOMYNEXT – Global packers are looking to buy tea at 2 – 2.5 US dollars a kilo, making a guaranteed floo...

Rohan Gunasekera
September 7, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lankan tea prices stagnate below 2013 levels

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices this year have remained below the levels two years ago in both rupee and US d...

September 5, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Bogawantalawa Tea diversifies into palm oil

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Bogawantalawa Tea Estates says it is diversifying into production of palm oil, g...

September 2, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lankan value added tea exports fall

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea bag and packet exports fell in July 2015 continuing a fall in value added exports th...

August 27, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lankan tea prices fall at Colombo auctions

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices fell again at the Colombo auctions this week with demand slackening from the ...

August 27, 2015 2 min read