Sri Lanka’s tea industry registered only marginal growth in 2025, with production inching up 0.54% year-on-year (YoY) to ...

For more than two centuries, Tamil tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka have been trapped in poverty, enduring structural ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's tea producers on Monday condemned a government order to increase wages by 70%, saying it would make their tea globally uncompetitive and reduce dollar earnings ...

CRAIGHEAD ESTATE, Sri Lanka (AP) — Arumugam Manikavalli, awakened by ferocious rain and rumbling earth, fled her home for the safety of a nearby temple on the tea estate where she works. That same ...

The Sri Lanka Tea Board (SLTB) has confirmed that tea exports for 2025 are expected to achieve year-on-year growth in both ...

Sri Lanka's tea industry started with one camellia sinesis plant brought from China in 1824 by the British. It has since grown into a $1.5 billion export industry -- the world's second biggest by ...

Tea is a drink with endless variations – whether you like it with a serving of scones, or spiced, like Indian Chai, or infused with mint like Moroccan tea, or even Japanese Matcha. It’s the most ...

Sri Lanka feeds the senses and the soul: from tea-clad highlands to vibrant markets, each meal tells a story of history, tradition, and mindful living. ByDaniel Scheffler, Contributor. Forbes ...

Tea leaves picked from the hills of Sri Lanka 200 years ago could save the cup of tea from extinction. Thamali Kariyawasam moved from Sri Lanka to the University of Bristol to research how tea crop ...

In April 2021, then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa abruptly banned imports of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, in an attempt to preserve Sri Lanka’s fast-depleting foreign currency ...