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Sri Lanka’s Ceylon tea output down 22.7-pct in June 2022

Six months to June output dipped 17 percent.

July 24, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports down 12.6-pct in June 2022, rupee earnings up in soft-peg collapse.

US dollar earnings were down 6 percent to 116.5 million dollars in June from a year ago.

July 18, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka's low grown tea prices move up in July first-week sale

On July 06 auction sale, low grown averaged 4.33 dollars

July 17, 2022 4 min read

Sri Lanka's Tea exports to Ukraine drops 55-pct from Jan-May 2022

Exports to Russia and Turkey too have dropped steeply

July 3, 2022 1 min read
Sri Lanka tea exports down 22.4-pct in March 2023

However the total export earnings were up 49.84 percent in March 2023 to 110.1 million US dollars

Sri Lanka tea prices fall at weekly auction

Sri Lanka’s High, Medium and Low Growns prices were down at an auction on April 19, following the New Year holidays

Sri Lankan tea exports to China up 30-pct in 2017

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea exports to China surged 30% to 9.9 million kilos in 2017 from the year befor...

January 25, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka 2017 tea production up 5-pct to 307mn kg, exports $1.5bn

ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka’s tea industry recovered in 2017 with the crop up 5% to 307 million kilos from a ye...

January 25, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka to set up monitoring agency for plantations firms

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government plans to set up a monitoring agency to closely supervise the work of regi...

January 24, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka Tea Board in deal to increase exports to Turkey

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is to enter into an agreement on agricultural cooperation with Turkey, one of the main markets ...

January 17, 2018 1 min read

Call for better monitoring of Sri Lankan tea exports

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan plantations companies have called for improved phytosanitary surveillance and quarantine...

January 2, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka to hold tea auctions in China

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government is to promote black tea consumption in China and also hold tea auctions t...

December 13, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lankan plantations press for oil palm support as profits surge

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s plantations industry has called for more support for palm oil as profits from th...

November 30, 2017 6 min read

Bought leaf helps Sri Lankan tea firm turnaround

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Agarapatana Plantations, which is making a cash call having suffered a serious l...

November 27, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka October tea exports up 10-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea exports rose 10% or by 2.6 million kilos to 25.5 million kilos in October 2017 from ...

November 23, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka gives Dentsu Grant global Ceylon tea promotion deal

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has awarded Dentsu Grant (Pvt) Ltd. a Rs220 million contract for consultancy services for...

November 23, 2017 1 min read
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Sri Lanka’s Kelani Valley Sept quarter loss narrows sharply

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan regional plantation company Kelani Valley Plantations said its net loss for the September 2017 ...

October 31, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Tea Smallholder Factories Sept net up 60-pct

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

October 30, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Horana Plantations returns to profit in Sept quarter

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s Horana Plantations returned to profit in the September 2017 quarter with gains from tea...

October 26, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices seen remaining high on global shortfall

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices were mostly firm or higher at this week’s auctions with high grown var...

October 13, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka 'land reform' disaster made the state the biggest land owner

Sri Lanka's had nationalised land from a number of citizens as well as foreigners and made the state the biggest landown...

October 11, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka warned of problems ahead from alternatives to glyphosate

Sri Lanka's agriculture and tea exports may suffer due to the use of alternative chemicals after glysophate, a weedicide...

October 10, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka tea prices up 28-pct in August

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices rose sharply in August this year from a year ago, helped by demand from oil p...

September 7, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka rulers to slash freedoms of tea, rubber, coconut land owners

Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had approved a proposal to further restrict the freedoms of owners of tea, rubber and c...

August 16, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Bogawantalawa Tea June net profit up 56-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Bogawantalawa Tea Estates reported that net profit rose 56 percent to 79 million...

August 14, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka in talks with Alibaba for online Ceylon tea sales

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government is holding talks with Alibaba Group, the Chinese ecommerce giant, to ...

August 11, 2017 2 min read
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