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Sri Lanka tea prices dip in first May auction

Sri Lanka’s high grown Ceylon teas saw dips in price in the first week of May amid quality drops lower foreign demand ...

May 13, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka's Sunshine Holdings boosts stake in tea marketing firm

Sri Lanka's Sunshine Holdings has boosted its stake in a branded tea company and trimmed the group interest in oil palm ...

May 12, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea firms lose 40-pct output, working with tight Covid-19 rules

Sri Lanka commercial tea plantations which have thousands of workers per farm said they were operating with tight health...

April 17, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices soar amid rupee fall, tight supplies at Coronavirus e-auction

Sri Lanka's tea prices rose sharply at an auction held amid Coroanvirus curfews with a falling rupee, strong demand from...

April 8, 2020 2 min read
Sri Lanka's 2022 tea exports drop to 25-year low on fertilizer shortage

However, the top agriculture export commodity fetched the highest rupee revenue in history

Sri Lanka's Ceylon Tea gain amid low volumes

All districts record decline in crop intake

Sri Lanka allocates more funds to support tea floor price

EconomyNext – Sri Lanka’s government has approved almost four billion rupees in extra funds to support a t...

Rohan Gunasekera
July 16, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka plantations offer Rs1,000 wage for higher productivity

EconomyNext – Sri Lanka’s regional plantation companies have said they are willing to meet labour union de...

July 13, 2015 2 min read

Better demand for Sri Lankan tea, prices still low

EconomyNext – Demand for Sri Lankan tea improved at this week’s Colombo auctions although prices remained ...

July 10, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka Watawala Plantations tea estates Rainforest Alliance certified

ECONOMYNEXT – All tea estates of Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations are now Rainforest Alliance certified, t...

July 8, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka study sees other beverages as competitive threat to tea

EconomyNext – Competition from other beverages, climatic changes and worker wages are seen as key issues the glob...

July 7, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lankan plantation firms say tea output up despite less land, workers

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan regional plantations companies (RPCs) said they have maintained adequate replanting rate...

July 7, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dilmah hosts tea-based culinary challenge

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Dilmah group hosted an international 'tea inspired' culinary competition which was attended by...

July 5, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka value-added tea exports slump this year

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka’s value-added tea exports have slumped this year with tea bag shipments ...

June 29, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka revives tea auction automation plan

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka’s tea trade has revived the idea of automating the more-than-century-old...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 29, 2015 1 min read

Guaranteed price recipe for poor quality, Sri Lanka tea trade warns

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka’s tea trade has come out against a government guaranteed price scheme fo...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 28, 2015 1 min read
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Sri Lanka tea trade restive over idle Rs5bn marketing fund

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka’s tea exporters are unhappy over a five billion rupee fund raised from a...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 27, 2015 1 min read

Loss-making Sri Lanka plantations companies supported by parent firms

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – The collapse in commodity prices have cause such severe losses at Sri Lanka’s reg...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 26, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka tax-payer to give subsidized credit to tea factories

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) - Sri Lanka's will subsidized credit to tea factories for working capital after global tea prices ...

June 26, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka plantations losses too high for wage hike without more productivity

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka’s regional plantation companies say their losses from the collapse in co...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 25, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea crop recovers as global production falls

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) –Sri Lanka’s tea production has recovered this year and the island is the only major...

June 17, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka targets China pepper market

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) –Sri Lanka is aiming to penetrate the pepper market in China whose demand is expected to gr...

June 16, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka to introduce organic certification

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka’s national accreditation body is to introduce organic certification in t...

June 15, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lankan tea prices recover

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) –Sri Lankan tea prices recovered at this week’s Colombo auctions as quality improved...

June 11, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Hayleys to start instant tea manufacturing

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) –Sri Lanka’s Hayleys group plans to start commercial manufacturing of instant tea fr...

June 10, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea auction prices continue slide

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) - Sri Lanka tea prices fell for fifth straight month at the Colombo auctions in May with low grown...

June 5, 2015 1 min read