To support these initiatives SLTB has introduced an array of new financial schemes, including grants to planters and estate owners, to encourage re-planting and new plantings as well as shading management programs.
“Sri Lanka’s tea production has dropped significantly over the past few years from 340 million kilograms per annum to 300 million kilograms at present. Thereby, the SLTB with State assistance has introduced these new funding schemes to enhance efforts to improve the production, while upgrading leaf quality of Ceylon teas,” SLTB Tea Commissioner E.A.J.K. Edirisinghe told the Daily FT.
In 2019, Ceylon Tea Traders Association (CTTA) launched the ‘Ceylon Tea Road Map 2030’, which aimed to enhance annual tea production to 350 million kilograms, whilst doubling the export earnings to $ 3 billion by 2030.
Edirisinghe said the initiative titled ‘Re-awakening Tea 2021-2025 Tea Revival Half Decade’ encourages tea smallholders to replant new and replace dead plants in this five-year program, where the Tea Small Holdings Development Authority will offer grants of Rs. 500,000 per hectare for tea replanting, Rs. 310,000 per hectare for new planting and Rs. 100,000 per dead plant to be replanted anew in the tea land.
“Sri Lanka’s tea production has dropped significantly over the past few years from 340 million kilograms per annum to 300 million kilograms at present. Thereby, the SLTB with State assistance has introduced these new funding schemes to enhance efforts to improve the production, while upgrading leaf quality of Ceylon teas,” SLTB Tea Commissioner E.A.J.K. Edirisinghe told the Daily FT.
In 2019, Ceylon Tea Traders Association (CTTA) launched the ‘Ceylon Tea Road Map 2030’, which aimed to enhance annual tea production to 350 million kilograms, whilst doubling the export earnings to $ 3 billion by 2030.
