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.

Carving a path through cloud-swathed villages and centuries-old tea estates, the new long-distance Pekoe Trail gives hikers a chance to explore Sri Lanka’s quiet central highlands.

If your brew is from Sri Lanka, the process of growing tea, ... At the Bogawantalawa tea centre in the Sri Lankan capital, ...

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 ...

Today, Sri Lanka stands as the world's third-largest tea exporter, accounting for approximately 15% of global tea exports. In the face of significant challenges, our tea industry recorded ...

Having researched small holder tea lands in Sri Lanka, the situation is different. The down country tea growing populations in the smallholdings are relatively well-to-do, with lighting, TVs, ...

As Sri Lanka’s economic crisis makes global headlines, estate worker B. Sundararajan is watching it manifest in his teacup. In recent weeks, he has cut his usual, two cups of tea a day to one.

Sri Lanka is set to start bartering tea to Iran next month in lieu of $250 million owed for oil, a Sri Lankan official told Reuters on Friday, as the crisis-hit country tries to lift sales to a ...

Sri Lanka's Tea Producers Warn 70% Wage Hike Will Hit Industry. By Reuters | May 27, 2024. By Reuters | May 27, 2024, at 9:24 a.m. Save. More. Sri Lanka's Tea Producers Warn 70% Wage Hike Will Hit ...

Hikers pass through a tea plantation in Sri Lanka. Soon to be officially launched, the Pekoe Trail spans 300 kilometers across the island's Central Highlands, passing river valleys, tea gardens ...

Sri Lanka’s tea production, as expected, declined by 48 million kilos or 16 percent in 2022, compared with 2021, on the back of the fertiliser issue and disruptions faced in the middle part of ...

Promoted: The new Dilmah Ceylon Iced Tea social media campaign for 2024, 'A Sip of Sri Lanka,' was filmed in some of the country's most striking natural landscapes and tea gardens.