Sri Lankan agri-business offers support for farmers
July 25, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's National Agribusiness Council (NAC) has started a scheme to help farmers get better access to markets and other skills …
July 25, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's National Agribusiness Council (NAC) has started a scheme to help farmers get better access to markets and other skills …
July 21, 2007 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka is ready to give free land to agribusiness companies for cultivation on a profit sharing basis, a government minister …
July 13, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's low grown tea prices have surged owing to strong demand from key buying countries and a shortfall in the crop, brokers …
July 10, 2007 (LBO) – A pay hike wrested by workers with a strike on Sri Lanka's tea estates last year has taken its toll on two more plantations …
July 09, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Tea Board plans to double the import duty on foreign-made teas and introduce quality certification for imports to …
June 26 (LBO) – A proposal to increase a tax on Sri Lankan tea exports to fund subsidies has been dropped after opposition from producers and exporters, a …
June 23 (LBO) – Two top Sri Lankan tea industry figures have urged the trade to make more efforts to maintain ethical and professional standards to avoid …
June 22 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's tea trade has won a greater say in how funds raised from a tax on tea exports are spent by the government, a senior industry …
June 18, 2007 (LBO) – The government is setting up a new committee to examine the long-term leases of estate lands to the privatized plantations firms, a …
June 14, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Maskeliya Plantations, which produces some of the island's best high grown teas, has reported a sharp fall in profits …
May 28, 2007 (LBO) – A subsidiary of Sri Lanka's Carsons group with oil palm estates in south east Asia is considering expansion and downstream ventures …
NEW YORK, May 24, 2007 (AFP) - Crude oil prices closed mixed Thursday as the market focused on healthy stocks of crude in the United States and the contested …
MAY 23, 2007 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's tea industry and the Securities and Exchange Commission are considering introducing a tea futures market as part of efforts …
May 18, 2007 (LBO) - The Colombo Tea Traders' Association (CTTA) said Friday the industry was strongly opposed to government plans to increase the tea export …
May 17, 2007 (LBO) - The United States supports Sri Lanka in its effort to develop off shore oil exploration, the country's ambassadore in Colombo said. buy …
May 11, 2007 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has raised fuel prices from midnight Friday with diesel going up by two rupees, petrol by one rupee and furnace oil by three …
MAY 3, 2007 (LBO) - Sri Lankan tea exports fell in the first quarter of 2007 but earnings were up because of high prices caused by supply shortages owing to a …
April 30, 2007 (LBO) - The Sri Lankan government has agreed to release all funds owed to the tea industry from the export cess but key stakeholders are …
April 27, 2007 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's state tea promotion agency is planning a new initiative based on performance incentives to boost flagging valued added tea …
April 25, 2007 (LBO) - Hayleys subsidiary Talawakelle Tea Estates (TTEL), has reported a sharp fall in first quarter profits after a strike crippled …