In 1890, Sir Thomas Lipton arrived on the island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, to purchase a plot of land that would become the first tea estate in his global tea empire. These days, in the ...

The tea industry is the backbone of Sri Lanka’s largely agrarian economy, with its teas renowned the world over as the finest around. Image by Joanik Bellalou. With fertilizer stocks fast ...

“We demand that Malaiyaha Tamil people be accepted as free and equal Sri Lankan citizens,” said Shalini Manori, a 54-year-old ...

from drying and rolling to tasting and packaging. “Some tea estates in Sri Lanka are still being run like colonial plantations,” says Neethanjana as we enter Amba’s small production room ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

The new Dilmah Ceylon Iced Tea social media campaign for 2024, 'A Sip of Sri Lanka,' was filmed in some of the country's most striking natural landscapes and tea gardens. Dilmah Ceylon Iced Tea ...

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 ...