MTI announces Tea Strategy Forum
In keeping with MTI’s thought leadership efforts to focus on industries critical to the Sri Lankan economy, MTI announced the Tea Strategy forum which is to be held on Wednesday 23 January 2013 , at the Hilton Residencies Colombo.
Sri Lanka Tea Board Chairperson Ms. Janaki Kuruppu will be delivering the keynote at the MTI Tea Strategy forum, which is expected to 
be attended tea industry professionals and those with an interest in the strategic development of the tea industry.
The forum will be based on MTI’s Tea industry value chain model comprising seven modules: Consume, 
retail, channel, develop, trade, produce and grow. MTI, through their main presentation on the outside-in perspective of the industry will highlight the key challenges at each stage of the seven module value chain.
This will be supported by a panel comprising industry experts from each of the seven value chain modules.
Finlays PLC Chairman Kumar Jayasuriya will be one of the panellists and expected to share his opinions covering many parts of the tea value chain.
