With a land area of 65,610 sq km (25,000 square miles), the country is responsible for almost 12 per cent of all exports of ...

Ten exceptional students from Sri Lanka’s tea plantation communities have been awarded prestigious scholarships through Serendib Flour Mills’ (SFML) Adhi Shakthi University Scholarship Program, in ...

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 ...

After leaving Kandy, we passed fertile riverine valleys, and entered Sri Lanka's hill country. Tea flourishes in these damp, wet highlands, so, "when tea became prominent, after the coffee rust ...

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.

Camellia Hills Dunkeld Estate, Dickoya, Hatton 22000, Sri Lanka; Misty mornings in Sri Lanka’s Castlereagh Valley tea country region feel like something out of a romance novel.

The British brought tea to Sri Lanka in the mid-1800s and, quickly overtaking coffee, it has grown into one of the island nation’s most notable exports. Sri Lanka’s single-origin tea, Ceylon Tea, is ...

Next to water, tea it is said, is the most consumed beverage in the world. And at the United Nations headquarters in New York last week, the spokesman for the world body referred to Sri Lanka in ...

The first of the Pekoe Trail’s 22 segments was opened in 2021, shining a light on life in Sri Lanka’s tea estates. Most countries have their own iconic, national walking trail. But for a long ...

A Sri Lankan tea laborer's hands ravaged from the constant picking of the plants throughout her life.KAVINDA HERATH / Not-For-Syndication For Stuff photographer, Kavinda Herath, having a cup of ...

If your brew is from Sri Lanka, the process of growing tea, harvesting the leaves and producing tea bags is surprisingly labour-intensive. With a land area of 65,610 sq km (25,000 square miles ...