In 1890, Sir Thomas Lipton arrived on the island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, to purchase a plot of land that would become the first tea estate in his global tea empire.These days, in the ...

Little known fact: In the 1860s, Sri Lanka was the world’s largest producer of coffee. One can still find a handful of growers trying to resurrect — or at least keep alive — this lost crop ...

Prabodh Illukpitiya, Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam, Darley Jose Kjosavik, Tea Agroecosystems in the Uva Highlands of Sri Lanka: An Evaluation of Land Management Activities, Mountain Research and ...

Most of Sri Lanka's tea is grown by smaller farmers, like Rohan Tilak Gurusinghe, who owns two acres of land close to the village of Kadugunnawa.

If the call of sandy beaches, lush greenery, and cultural richness stirs your soul, then Sri Lanka deserves a spot on your ...

A Route du Bonheur pilgrimage into Sri Lanka’s storied tea plantations uncovers the fragrant, fertile world of oolong, ... Ah yes, serendipity—land of happy, unexpected discoveries.

According to the Tea Control Act, tea lands between 20 perches and 10 acres are considered “Tea Small Holdings” across the country. I am a tea smallholder myself. My journey began in 1977 with a ...

Sri Lanka has been known the world over for its renowned Ceylon tea, however, the lands on which tea is cultivated was first allocated for the establishment of coffee plantations. With coffee ...

Sri Lanka is not blessed with good factor conditions and these unfavourable factor conditions prevent Sri Lanka from adopting a cost leadership strategy. Given the cost structure of Sri Lankan tea, it ...

Tea plantation worker Loganathan Saraswathy, 47, has been fighting for her rights and living in slave-like conditions for years, a common problem in Sri Lanka over a century and a half after the ...

During a ceasefire in the Sri Lankan civil war in 2000, Merrill J Fernando, the founder of the Dilmah tea plantation, started receiving requests from across the globe to visit his estate. As a ...

Sri Lanka is a bewitching land of gentle people, ... Tea first arrived in Sri Lanka as a substitute for coffee when a devastating disease destroyed the extensive coffee plantations in the 19th ...