Sri Lanka’s plantation sector has been significantly shaped by its colonial past. Since the establishment of the first ...

The recently opened Pekoe Trail, which runs for more than 300km through tea plantations, villages and forests, tells the story of Sri Lanka's complex and chequered tea history. The sun is bright ...

Ceylon Tea has been synonymous with the South Asian island for more than a century. The beverage has played a crucial role in the socio-economic evolution of Sri Lanka ever since it was introduced ...

In the remote hills behind the city of Kandy, in Sri Lanka's central highlands, the tea plantations stretch out over rolling hills like a vast emerald carpet. In estates all over the region ...

In 2015 Sri Lanka was producing 340 million kg of tea which was hampered by the Glyphosate ban fiasco. As the industry was slowly recovering from this after laws were brought in place to allow for the ...

The operation is targeted at some tea plantations in Sri Lanka, the main producer of the tea leaves used in Kirin Gogo-no-Kocha, and is planned to be in operation on one large estate and 30 small ...

Up in the Sri Lankan highlands, a 19th-century transport network for tea is now conveying adventurers to remote communities ...

His new book; The Betrayal, The Plantation Raj, chronicles the kingdom that tea has created, and its role in Sri Lankan culture. Herman in his own right is a King of this industry, and has surprised ...

Sri Lanka was once a prominent coffee producer ... "This dish came to my mind while I was travelling around the Bogawantalawa ...