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 impressive ...

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.

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 ...

Tea plantation workers in India, Kenya and Sri Lanka can end their brutal exploitation only by breaking from the unions and fighting for a unified socialist and internationalist strategy.

Tea is Sri Lanka's biggest single export at US$1.25 billion a year. (Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images) Sri Lanka is paying some foreign debts with tea, rather than cash.But an abrupt ban on ...

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.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, Sri Lanka -- On a visit to Singapore in 2023, I enjoyed a Bridgerton-style afternoon tea offered by a hotel as part of a collaboration with Dilmah tea, a brand rooted in Sri Lanka.

For Sri Lanka, the severity of climate change on tea can critically impact its economy. Tea is the leading foreign exchange earner in the country, and two million Sri Lankans, roughly 10 per cent of ...

Sri Lanka produces about 340 million kilogrammes of tea annually. Last year it exported 265.5 million kg of tea, making it the largest forex-earning crop, with earnings of $1.24 billion in 2020.

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 ...