BOGAWANTALAWA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - On a lush plantation in Sri Lanka, Arulappan Ideijody deftly plucks the tips of each tea bush, throwing them over her shoulder into an open basket on her back.

The Sri Lankan tea industry saw an increase in production and exports but recorded a drop in the national average price for the period from January to September 2025 compared to the same period in ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Merrill J. Fernando’s eyes lit up one recent morning when his son Dilhan handed him a box of Twinings Pure White Tea. He quickly ripped open a tea bag and spilled its contents ...

A stool handcrafted by Sri Lankan women entered the Chinese market through the CIIE and was sold out immediately in the live ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s plantation minister on Wednesday denied that the country’s agricultural products, including its famous Ceylon tea, are dangerous, days after Russia imposed a ...

The University of Bristol, Tea Research Institute of Sri Lanka, Ahmed Tea, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and the University of Peradeniya have unified in their efforts to help Thamali with her PhD, ...

Sri Lankan tea workers are calling on presidential candidates to respect their land and education rights. The workers are almost all Tamils descended from those brought to Sri Lanka from India by the ...

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 ...

On a lush plantation in Sri Lanka, Arulappan Ideijody deftly plucks the tips of each tea bush, throwing them over her shoulder into an open basket on her back. By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Merrill J. Fernando’s eyes lit up one recent morning when his son Dilhan handed him a box of Twinings Pure White Tea. He quickly ripped open a tea bag and spilled its contents onto ...

Every day Arulappan Ideijody heads out to work on a lush tea plantation in Sri Lanka. The emerald green hills of Bogawantalawa, east of the commercial capital Colombo, stretch for miles around. After ...