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Sri Lanka tea pick up at auction mid-July

Sri Lanka tea prices picked up marginally in the third week of July with good quality lines of teas fetching better pric...

July 19, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka low grown teas see pick up

Sri Lanka tea prices pick up marginally in the second week of July, helped by stronger demand low grown grades, after a ...

July 11, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka tea demand in the Coronavirus era, the China factor and anti-viral claims

Coronavirus is buffeting the short term demand for Sri Lanka's Ceylon Tea with fears of second waves coming in while med...

June 23, 2020 5 min read

Sri Lanka suspends export tax on tea for 6-months

Sri Lanka has suspended an export tax on tea for six months to help the tea sector as it recovers from a Coronavirus cri...

June 18, 2020 1 min read
Sri Lanka's Ceylon Tea prices fall for the third week

Total offered quantity was down to 4.5 million kilograms from 5 million kilograms a week ago.

Sri Lanka plantations minister moves to increase wages for tea, rubber estate workers

"With the rise in cost of living, a fair wage must be sought with government intervention," he said.

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
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Sri Lanka bureaucrats accused of delaying tea marketing campaign

ECONOMYNEXT - A Sri Lankan exporter of value added teas has accused bureaucrats of the previous administration of delib...

August 20, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka low grown tea prices slump to lowest in three years

ECONOMYNEXT – Prices of Sri Lanka’s low grown teas, which make up the bulk of the crop fell to their lowes...

August 16, 2015 2 min read

Ceylon tea brand being misused, Sri Lanka exporter warns

ECONOMYNEXT – Russian brands are causing damage to Sri Lanka’s tea industry by selling tea from other orig...

August 14, 2015 2 min read

Lower Sri Lankan tea prices boost Finlays Colombo profit

ECONOMYNEXT – Lower tea prices have helped boost the bottom line of Finlays Colombo whose net profit shot up 91 p...

August 13, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka Finlays plantations firms make losses in June quarter

ECONOMYNEXT – Two regional plantations companies owned by the Finlays group have both reported losses in the June...

August 11, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka June tea exports down 9.5-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea exports fell 9.5 percent or by 2.9 million kilos to 27.7 million kilos in Ju...

July 23, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports fall for eighth month

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea exports, which were hit hard by lower demand from Russia and the Middle East...

July 22, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Tea Smallholder Factories makes loss in June quarter

ECONOMYNEXT – Tea Smallholder Factories, which makes black tea from tea leaves bought from small farmers, slipped...

July 21, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka plantations say wage hike demand will cost Rs18bn

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s regional plantations companies (RPCs) said a 1,000 rupee daily wage demand by wo...

July 17, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka to revamp tea small holder fund

ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka’s loss-making state-run Tea Shakthi Fund that supports smallholders will be restruc...

July 17, 2015 1 min read