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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 ...
- More dust tea seized from Galle (Category: Breaking News)
- Dust tea exporter arrested by CID (Category: Breaking News)
- Tea Board Act to the amended (Category: Breaking News)
- Bird-blended tea sweepings sold here and abroad (Category: Breaking News)
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 ...
- Iran to double tea imports from SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Tackling tea travails (Category: Business)
- Tea Industry Divided Over Importing Tea For Blending (Category: Breaking News)
- Tea tales (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Hub is no hoodoo, says TEA (Category: Business)
- Marketing 3.0 and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- ‘Pure Ceylon Tea’ or ‘tea hub’? The billion dollar question (Category: Business)
- Do people prefer coffee over tea? (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Storms brewing in teacups (Category: Business)
- Storm in Sri Lanka’s teacup: A more pragmatic approach is key (Category: Business)
- SL must become a tea nation, but… (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Tackling tea travails (Category: Business)
- Planters’ Association Chief says turbulent times for tea (Category: Business)
- Sector report (Category: Business)
- Tea Industry Divided Over Importing Tea For Blending (Category: Breaking News)
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
- No change in Sri Lanka's tea exports to Iran (Category: Breaking News)
- No change in Sri Lanka's tea exports to Iran despite US exemption (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis in the Middle East jolts tea industry – Minister (Category: Business)
- Feb. tea output slips marginally (Category: Business)
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
- Value Trend (Category: Business)
- Tea Trials (Category: Business)
- Syria lifts ban on imports of SL tea (Category: Breaking News)
- Tea Makes $ 1.4 Bn (Category: Breaking News)
Production of tea and the export of the commodity have registered new record levels. Director General of the Sri Lanka Tea Board H.D. Hemaratne said the highest tea production in the past few years was recorded in 2010. 315 million kilogrammes of tea were produced during the year. The Tea Board
- Leaf Trend (Category: Business)
- Crop Condition (Category: Business)
- Smallholders target 300 million kilograms of tea this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Leaf Trends (Category: Business)
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