News Search:
Narrowed By (Click to remove): > [time] > [query]
- adaderana.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 5.0241556

Sri Lanka’s tea industry is deeply divided over plans to boost earnings by importing cheaper leaves for blending and re-export, over fears the changes could water down the “Pure Ceylon” brand.

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 6.0289865

Sri Lanka's tea industry is deeply divided over plans to boost earnings by importing cheaper leaves for blending and re-export, over fears the changes could water down the "Pure Ceylon" brand. ...

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.30536798

A new programe is being planned to prevent the export of dust tea to the foreign market. Information has surfaced on an organized gang which is engaged in the dispatch of dust tea to the foreign market. Industrialists claim that this is a serious threat to Sri Lanka’s tea industry. Drawing the attention to this ...

Similar Stories
- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.69574064

Another Cancer Hospital affiliated to the National Cancer Institute at Maharagama is to be constructed. It will be built at a cost of 2100 million rupees. The Ahamad Tea Company in London which sends Sri Lanka tea to around 70 countries for about 25 years will be giving 1500 million rupees

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.20357865

By Chrishanthi Christopher Sri Lanka’s Tea Exporters fear that tea will lose its place as one of the major revenue earners for the country if trade with Iran is abandoned. With Iran out of the market it is reported that for over five weeks the high grown teas are being sold at low prices to ...

Similar Stories
- www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.10796389

Ballooning trade gap Even with the multitude of measures taken to curb imports, Sri Lanka's cumulative trade deficit widened to nearly US$ 1.7 billion in the first two months of the year with earnings from exports increasing marginally by 3.3 per cent to US$ 1.8 billion whilst import expenditure shooting by 24.7 per cent to ...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.15268399

Seven reasons were touted for the liberalization of the tea industry by Tea Exporters’ Association (TEA) representatives when they met the press on Tuesday. Those were “Ceylon Tea” losing its position in international markets to global brands; blenders moving out from Colombo to new tea hubs such as Dubai due to exorbitant duties charged on ...

- www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.2218447

News reports point to an important decision that the minister concerned has been requested to make on the above subject. If this is correct it is important that we recognise that it is more than a million dollar decision that has been called for. It is so important a decision because it could determine the ...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.15268399

  Industry Has a Bright Future-Analyst By Dinouk Colombage Tea prices at the Colombo auctions have increased after the weakening of the rupee and demand high. “Tea prices have seen an increase due to the rupee devaluation, however, there has been no change to the level of demand,”  Oshan de Silva, marketing executive of Forbes and ...

Similar Stories
- news360.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.20357865

Sri Lanka’s tea production during March has declined by 23% when compared with the same month a year ago, as bad weather has impacted crops in all tea growing regions. According to the John Keells Tea Brokers, during March 2012, Sri Lanka has only produced 27 million kilograms of tea compared to 35 million kilograms produced ...

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 6.0289865

Many of those who work in the tea industry in Sri Lanka are living in poverty and their lives are getting tougher.

- lankanewspapers.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 6.0289865

Tea small holders in Sri Lanka say the government has failed to provide assistance to the tea cultiv..

- www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.14395185

By Cheranka Mendis The volatility in Middle Eastern markets, coupled with the increasing issue of low quality due to competition and increasing costs, has placed the local tea industry in a big fix, which could, if unattended, immediately mark the end of a Sri Lankan legacy in four to five years. Despite Sri Lankan tea ...

- colombopage.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 6.0289865

Mar 26, Colombo: Tea small holders in Sri Lanka say the government has failed to provide assistance to the tea cultivators.

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.69574064

Discussions have been held between Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa and Japanese Special Representative Yasushi Akashi.  Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa who is participating in the annual Sri Lanka Tea and Trade Promotion Seminar in Tokyo, Japan met with Japanese Special Envoy to Sri Lanka Yasushi

- newsnow.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.35626262

The Embassy of Sri Lanka in China organized a Sri Lanka cultural evening and gala dinner under the theme “Refreshingly Sri Lanka” to celebrate the 64th Anniversary of the Independence of Sri Lanka and the 55th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Sri Lanka and China on 05th March 2012 at China World Hotel in Beijing, in collaboration with a large number of Chinese compa...

Similar Stories
- lakbimanews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.15268399

By Elmo Leonard Sri Lanka’s mid-February dual hike of diesel by 37 percent and electricity for industry by 15 percent sent shock waves through the gamut of the island’s tea industry. As Sri Lanka celebrates 145 years of commercial tea plantations this year, the government’s boast is that the industry sustains 2 million of its population, directly and indirectly. The brag was echoed by Minister of ...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.69574064

Thousands of jobs at risk By Indika Sri Aravinda The  tea industry, the country’s second largest net foreign exchange earner is facing a potential crisis as a result of the economic sanctions imposed on Iran by the US government, the Sri Lanka Tea Board said. Tea Board Chairperson Janaki Kuruppu

- colombopage.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 1.113185

Jan 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka tea industry sources say that the prevailing severe drought has affected the tea cultivation and production.

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 6.0289865

COLOMBO, 20 January (IRIN) - Tea in Sri Lanka is one of the country's biggest cash crops, but families working on tea estates are among the nation's poorest in terms of earnings as well as nutrition, say experts who back regional approaches to tackle nutrition disparity.

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.8348888

Lanka Tea Research Institute ...

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.69574064

A new machine has been introduced for efficient plucking of tea leaves.  The industry is facing many problems due to the shortage of skilled labour.  The Tea Research Institute has been able to find a solution for this problem through new technology. Senior Research Officer of the Sri Lanka Tea

- www.ft.lk - Category : Business - Relavancy : 0.69574064

Business leader and Chairman of premier blue chip John Keells Holdings (JKH) Susantha Ratnayake has been appointed to the Board of Directors of national carrier SriLankan Airlines.The appointment with immediate effect comes after Ratnayake  stepped down last week as Chairman of Sri Lanka Tea

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.69574064

Sri Lanka’s value added tea export has increased by 58% during the first nine months of the year. The country’s value added tea export percentage was averaging around 30% during the past few years. The Sri Lanka Tea Board said its intention was to increase the exports of value added tea

Similar Stories
- colombopage.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.8348888

Nov 18, Colombo: For a seventh consecutive month Sri Lanka's year-on-year tea output dropped by 15 percent in October, the figures released by the Sri Lanka Tea Board Friday showed.

- colombopage.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.8348888

Oct 19, Colombo: For a sixth consecutive month Sri Lanka's year-on-year tea output dropped over 10 percent in September, the figures released by the Sri Lanka Tea Board Wednesday showed.

- srilankamirror.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.69574064
- news360.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.25447333

A Tea broker says Sri Lanka’s agricultural production and hydro power generation will be badly affected if the prevailing dry weather conditions continue. John Keells Tea Brokers in its weekly tea report says, according to the Meteorology department the inter-monsoonal rains may be delayed, and the forecast suggest very little signs of heavy rainfall at least ...

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 6.0289865

Bad weather is hitting the production of tea in Sri Lanka, one of the island's most crucial industries.

- bbc.co.uk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 8.038649

Sri Lanka tea production from the highest hilly locations, and from medium altitudes, declined sharply in August.

Local News

Local News

Sri Lanka News

@2022 - All Right Reserved. Designed and Developed by Rev-Creations, Inc