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 ...

Today, Sri Lanka exports about $1.3 billion in tea. ... K. Tilgowthey and about 15 other women were plucking tea leaves from a hillside in central Sri Lanka as the rain came down.

What began as Sri Lanka’s first consignment of tea to the London auctions in 1872—consisting of two packs totalling 23 pounds, and valued at `58—today contributes 5 percent of global ...

Tea plantation workers from Hatton and Bandarawela in Sri Lanka’s Central Hills district recently spoke to WSWS reporters about the forthcoming May 20 plantation workers’ congress. The ...

It’s like the old PG adverts. Sari-clad women work barefoot, plucking the tenderest tea leaves, and throwing them over their shoulders. Here in the high hills of central Sri Lanka, on the 60 ...

The daily target for plucking tea leaves has been increased to 18 kilograms, ... “These committees will forge links with other workers in Sri Lanka and internationally, ...