Many of the tea pluckers on Sri Lanka's vast estates also live on site in supplied homes known as line houses. Nestled at the edge of the tea fields, the line houses stand in rows, long single ...

If your brew is from Sri Lanka, the process of growing ... It takes two to three hours for an experienced plucker to pick a full basket's worth of tea leaves, and four hours at most.

A recent study says tea pluckers in Sri Lanka’s plantations take home only around Rs 3,500 per month and young people are leaving plantations for better paying work in cities. An independent study ...

India-Sri Lanka rivalries may not be severe as the ... Here we are talking about the tea pluckers. This is a problem where solutions for it have been discussed time and time again in parliament.

Tea pickers at work surrounded by vibrant green tea bushes in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka on April 4, 2015. ( pasosypedales.blogspot.com /Flickr) Want to see your images in our Photo of the Day posts?

Step into a bygone era at Ceylon Tea Trails, where historic bungalows sit amidst Sri Lanka's lush tea fields. Ceylon Tea Trails is a collection of five tea-planter bungalows replete with vintage ...

Herman Gunaratne sits opposite me at the Railway Café in Galle. He fits the dapper mould, respectable, polite and with a slight glint in his eyes. A New Age Old World man and bestselling author of The ...

Sri Lanka’s tea industry is trying to raise the bar by adopting sustainability standards amidst efforts to gain geographical ...