Sri Lanka is paying some foreign debts with tea, rather than cash. But an abrupt ban on chemical fertilizers has hurt crop yields and tea pickers are losing hours and wages as food prices double.

As a lifelong forest-bather whose childhood nickname was Tree (I was tall, with the surname Wood), I thought I knew green. But here it’s varied and intense in the tea bushes that hem each slope.

Sri Lanka can be best described as south Asia in miniature form, filled with beaches, elephants, tea plantations, curries, sacred rituals, colourful ...

Sri Lanka’s tea industry is crucial to the island’s economy, and among its main exports: tea accounted for $1.3 billion in annual export revenue until the economic crisis hit the island.

Leaves from the lush green tea estates covering the hills of central Sri Lanka end up in cups across the world. Tea is the island's biggest export, normally bringing in more than $1bn a year, but ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Tea pickers pluck tea leaves at a plantation in the morning in Norwood, Central Province, Sri Lanka, August 19, 2022. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell/File Photo ...

If your brew is from Sri Lanka, the process of growing tea, harvesting the leaves and producing tea bags is surprisingly labour-intensive. With a land area of 65,610 sq km (25,000 square miles ...

Sri Lanka's tea industry grapples with a steep wage hike, but some estate owners embrace new approaches to balance worker welfare and productivity in a bid to save the sector.

A Route du Bonheur pilgrimage into Sri Lanka’s storied tea plantations uncovers the fragrant, fertile world of oolong, orange pekoe, and more—not to mention a vibrant native economy.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's tea producers on Monday condemned a government order to increase wages by 70%, saying it would make their tea globally uncompetitive and reduce dollar ...