People carry bags of freshly plucked 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 ...

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.

I’d studied Japan’s tea ceremony rituals, like the chanoyu, and so in Sri Lanka, I set out to explore ... bather whose childhood nickname was Tree (I was tall, with the surname Wood), I ...

Colombo - Sri Lanka's tea market fell significantly on Tuesday due to a majority of exporters withdrawing supplies from auctions and a slump in prices due to the outbreak of war in Iraq, Tea brokers ...

There is no electricity for daily tasks in Malar Malligai's simple, concrete home in central Sri Lanka. Gripping her baby with one hand, she pounds the flour for the family's daily meals with the ...

Leaves from the lush green tea estates covering the hills of central Sri Lanka end up in cups across the world. Tea is the island's biggest export, normally bringing in more than $1bn a year ...

Sri Lanka’s tea production, as expected, declined by 48 million kilos or 16 percent in 2022, compared with 2021, on the back of the fertiliser issue and disruptions faced in the middle part of ...

Nowadays tea also turns up on diners' plates What goes in your morning cuppa? A lot more than you think. If your brew is from ...

It's 8am and there is sleeting rain — miserable conditions to be outside, let alone work in Sri Lanka's tea fields. But for Sagunthla, a mother of two, it's just another day. She wraps a plastic ...