Tea production hits decade low as September output slides
Photo: Daily MirrorSri Lanka’s tea production fell 3.28 percent in the first nine months of 2026 to its lowest January-September level since at least 2016, as the declines across all three growing elevations outweighed a rise in the green tea output.
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- Divaina · වී නිෂ්පාදනය ඉහළට
- Sri Lanka Mirror · TRI warns of tea cultivation crisis due to El Niño
- Daily FT · High Grown tea output sinks to 34-year low in September
- Hiru News (සිංහල) · සංචාරක ආදායම දෙවැනි මාසයටත් ඉහළට: වසරේ මුල් මාස 9 ආදායම 9.2% කින් පහළට