There are around 1.5 million descendants of plantation workers living in Sri Lanka today, including about 3.5% of the electorate, and some 470,000 people still live on plantations.

Many Sri Lankans are leaving Sri Lanka to go abroad, but we are coming from abroad to operate from Sri Lanka. We are doing it the other way around,” he said on a lighter note. Menaka Athukorala, CEO & ...

People pluck tea leaves at a plantation in Bogawantalawa, Sri Lanka, on May 20, 2025. Sri Lanka earned 1.43 billion U.S. dollars from tea exports in 2024, with an increase of more than 9 percent ...

Sri Lanka’s Hatton Plantations PLC expects the first batch of coffee harvest to hit the market in 2026, ... Hatton Plantation, which is the largest black tea producer among RPCs, ...

Sri Lanka's tea pickers, crucial to the economy, aim to vote for a president who promises better working conditions. With a history of voting as a bloc, their support will be vital in the upcoming ...

There are around 1.5 million descendants of plantation workers living in Sri Lanka today, including about 3.5% of the electorate, and some 470,000 people still live on plantations.

SPRING VALLEY, Sri Lanka (AP) — Whoever Sri Lanka's next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn't expecting much to change in her daily struggle to feed the four children and elderly ...

There are around 1.5 million descendants of plantation workers living in Sri Lanka today, including about 3.5% of the electorate, and some 470,000 people still live on plantations.

Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of thousands of plantation workers, but the long-marginalized group has heard ...