by Lalin I De Silva The global plantation industry faces significant challenges that threaten its productivity, profitability, and sustainability, with climate change, soil degradation, and labor ...

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.

Conservationists in Sri Lanka have welcomed a decision by US-based multinational food firm Dole to abandon plans for a huge banana plantation. Campaigners say Dole had hoped to team up with a ...

R. Seethayammah, “Best Tea Harvester” prize winner, from Hayleys Plantations’ Somerset Estate in Talawakelle, Sri Lanka. Competitors were given a 20-minute time span to pluck the tea leaves.

51% of the crops affected in a country that is among the world's leading exporters. According to Forbes&Walker, 'in the most severely affected areas, rubber production has plummeted by up to 30%'.

A local food expert shares the best meals in Sri Lanka, coconut curries, fresh seafood, fried shorties, street food like kotthu, local tea, and more in Colombo, the highlands, and beaches.

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 ...

A large majority of the plantation work force belongs to the community of Indian Origin Tamils, who had been brought to Sri Lanka by the British rulers in the 19th century.

Sri Lanka is fast losing its rubber plantations to a fast-spreading airborne fungal disease, which is severely impacting the crop output. The latest rubber market report by Forbes & Walker ...

Sri Lanka Context: Sri Lanka is already experiencing the effects of climate variability, affecting its tea, rubber, and coconut plantations. By 2030, the challenges of droughts and floods are expected ...

Conservationists in Sri Lanka welcome a decision by US-based multinational food firm Dole to abandon plans for a huge banana plantation in the country.