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In dollar terms, the average sale price for Sri Lankan tea had been 4.41 dollars per kilogram
- Sri Lanka tea sold at historical high prices in July 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tea exports down 10-pct in July; dollar and rupee earnings up (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tea exports down 12.6-pct in June 2022, rupee earnings up in soft-peg collapse. (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Ceylon tea exports down 17-pct in May 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
The sharp increase in lending rates is a major cost to the industry
- Niraj de Mel made Chairman of Sri Lanka Tea Board (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tea output falls, exports down 5-pct but supplies maintained (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tea prices to stay strong. (Category: Breaking News)
- Tea Exporters set target of 5B Rupees by 2020 (Category: Breaking News)
We must first set ensure that politics is led by economics and science, and not the other way around.
- Government grants fertilizer subsidy for Sri Lanka's coconut growers (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka government allocates Rs. 225 million to popularize organic fertilizer (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to popularize organic fertilizer (Category: Breaking News)
- Coconut production increases (Category: Breaking News)
The average tea price in August hit 1,951.82 rupees per kilogram
- Leaf Level (Category: Business)
- Cultivating Clones (Category: Business)
- Demand Effect (Category: Business)
- Green Leaf (Category: Business)
US dollar earnings were up 2% to 117.5 million dollars in July from a year ago
- Sri Lanka’s Low Grown tea price slip in August 1-week sale (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tea exports down 9.7–pct in August, rupee earnings hit record (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka aims to raise tea exports (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tea export earnings to hit record high (Category: Breaking News)
July prices surpassed the previous record price reported in April 2022 of 1,333.61 (USD 4.14).
- Sri Lanka’s state-run Litro reduces cooking gas prices (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka cuts petrol to Rs410 a litre, diesel unchanged (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka revises fuel prices; Petrol price reduce by Rs.20 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s state-run Litro drops cooking gas prices (Category: Breaking News)
By Steve A. Morrell Rupee earnings from tea from January to June this year is Rs.164.2 billion. This translates into a 28 per cent increase in earnings from tea over corresponding earnings from tea during the same period last year, which amounted to Rs. 127 billion, an Asia Siyaka (AS) tea research report said. In […]
- Tackling tea travails (Category: Business)
- Tea production and prices leaving much to be desired (Category: Breaking News)
- Plantation sector and economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka earns 1.12 Billion U.S.Dollars from tea exports in 10 months. (Category: Breaking News)
US dollar earnings were down 6 percent to 116.5 million dollars in June from a year ago.
- Sri Lanka tea exports down 10-pct in July; dollar and rupee earnings up (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Ceylon tea output down 22.7-pct in May 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Bairaha Farm’s profit soars over 200% on rising chicken price (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Sunshine Holdings net up 85-pct in June (Category: Breaking News)
Promises inputs amid soft-peg crisis
- Leaf Level (Category: Business)
- Cultivating Clones (Category: Business)
- Demand Effect (Category: Business)
- Green Leaf (Category: Business)
Tea farmers would be able to import fertilizer and inputs
- Sri Lanka tea export earnings exceed 1 bn dollar (Category: Breaking News)
- Leaf Level (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka tea export earnings to hit record high (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tea export earnings to hit record high (Category: Breaking News)
In rupee terms export in May were up 54 percent to 33 billion rupees
- Sri Lanka tea exports down 12.6-pct in June 2022, rupee earnings up in soft-peg collapse. (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tea exports down 10-pct in July; dollar and rupee earnings up (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Ceylon tea output down 16.3-pct in May 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lank tea sharply up in rupee terms after currency collapse (Category: Breaking News)
The South Asian region is deeply divided in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
- Travel website ranks Sri Lanka as the best country in South Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka abstains from voting on Ukraine resolution (Category: Breaking News)
- India bolsters military and economic ties with the US and Europe amidst China’s aggression in In... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, India abstain on UN resolution calling on Russia to make reparations to Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
Regional plantation companies and smallholders are harvesting green leaf and arranging deliveries
- Market Share (Category: Business)
- Leaf Factor (Category: Business)
- Value Trend (Category: Business)
- Leaf Trend (Category: Business)
It is necessary that the policymakers do not make the mistake of not listening to the experts in the industry
- A new program is essential to propel the plantation industry forward, encompassing the tea secto... (Category: Breaking News)
- Industry discusses Ceylon Tea’s ‘ExclusiviTea’ (Category: Business)
- Tea traders call for a wage cut (Category: Business)
- CTTA completes Colombo Tea Auction study with MTI (Category: Business)
[…] The post “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankas 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.
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. ...
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)
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
- National Cancer Hospital denies radiation fear (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to change the name of National Cancer Institute (Category: Breaking News)
- “Substandard” machines (Category: Breaking News)
- Hospital gives tips for men helping a loved one with cancer (Category: USA, North Carolina)
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)
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 ...
- Govt. pledges to protect ‘Pure Ceylon Tea’ (Category: Business)
- More Than A Storm In A TeacuP (Category: Breaking News)
- Debate on importation of lower cost 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)
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 ...
- Tackling tea travails (Category: Business)
- Local tea industry in a fix (Category: Business)
- 20% Rupee Dip & Its Impact (Category: Breaking News)
- Tea Industry Divided Over Importing Tea For Blending (Category: Breaking News)
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