Many of the tea pluckers on Sri Lanka's vast estates also live on site ... A child worker sits in a private garden where she's paid to remove weeds.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner) But on ...

Herman Gunaratne sits opposite me at the Railway Café in Galle. He fits the dapper mould, respectable, polite and with a slight glint in his eyes. A New Age Old World man and bestselling author of The ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka is spearheading an initiative to develop long –term technologies to minimize the impact of climatic change on tea plantations in tea producing countries. As a pioneering organic tea producer ...

Government action has so far not stabilised markets. Lower production is causing negative effects on inflation and the availability of products in stores. Some rice varieties have been unavailable ...

It also plays a major role in Sri Lanka’s modern economy, being the place where a young Scotsman James Taylor first planted tea in this country in 1867. Sri Lanka is now the fourth largest tea ...