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.

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Srilanka, May 22 -- The Prime Minister made these remarks while attending the International Tea Day, Tea for Harmony: Yaji 2025 China-Sri Lanka Cultural Gala event held 21st May at Marino Beach hotel ...

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, ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - 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 earnings ...

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 ...

The Vietnamese Embassy in Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the Light of Asia Centre, hosted a Vietnam-Sri Lanka tea culture ...

Kericho Governor Erick Mutai addresses the press at the county headquarters on May 5, 2023, after meeting officials of James Finlays and Browns Investments PLC. [Julius Chepkwony, Standard] The ...

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 ...

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 ...