Category: Agriculture
Planters seek coordinated response to stabilise tea production and key export markets
The Planters’ Association of Ceylon (PA), the apex body of Sri Lanka’s Plantation industry, has called for an urgent review and streamlining of the industry’s cost structures in light of the unprecedented crisis in West Asia and the Strait of Hormuz. Currently, approximately 45% of Sri Lanka’s total annual Tea exports – equivalent to approximately US$ […]
Tribute: Nissanka Welikala – Planter (1945-2026)
April 28, 2026 (LBO) – In Sri Lanka you come across all types of ‘characters’, and then there was my Uncle Nissanka, AKA Aswin, Alex and of course ‘Boora.’ Nissanka Welikala was the only son of Radiologist Dr. A. H. N. Welikala and Viola Welikala. Dr. Welikala dropped dead of a heart attack in his […]
Sri Lanka’s first 100-pct enewable energy recycling center in plantation sector unveiled by the Coca-Cola Foundation
The first zero-emission Material Collection and Processing Facility in Sri Lanka was officially inaugurated under the SWYFT Project. This initiative is funded by The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF), implemented by Janathakshan, with Neptune Recyclers serving as the recycling partner, in collaboration with Talawakelle Plantation. The Somerset ECO Material Collection & Processing Center was officially opened on […]
Kenilworth Estate: Crafting premium Ceylon tea through innovation and heritage
Since 1947, when its current factory rose from the site of an earlier 1942 structure, Kenilworth Tea Estate has crafted teas renowned for their long, wiry, well-twisted leaves; blacker, cleaner, and meticulously rolled through an extended 2.5-hour Orthodox process that yields a coppery-bright infusion with creamy, full-bodied strength, woody frankness, and subtle citrus notes. Perched […]
Fortune GP Farms strengthens poultry sector performance through global collaboration
Reinforcing its commitment to advancing measurable production standards across Sri Lanka’s poultry value chain, G P Farms Lanka Limited, which is a joint-venture between Bairaha Farms PLC and Crysbro group, recently conducted a two-day technical workshop/seminar in collaboration with global breeding leader Cobb Vantress. The programme brought together technical specialists from Cobb Vantress operations in […]
A road map to net zero for Sri Lanka’s plantation sector
With the heighted consensus on the need for climate change mitigation and adaption, the SriLankan plantation industry is now faced with one of the most consequential transformations inits 172 year history as a growing segment of the industry plots a course for Net Zero emissions.With global buyers, financiers and regulators push for low-carbon supply chains, […]
Small Investors For Polytunnel Agriculture in the Northern Province
By Jekhan Aruliah Nirojan comes from a family of farmers. Born in 1990, his parents farmed two acres of banana and chillies in Killinochchi. Like hundreds of thousands of others during the Sri Lankan Civil War they became IDPs (IDP, Internally Displaced Persons, refugees in their own country). Streams of people fleeing first from their […]