Skip to content
Sunday, Apr 19, 2026
Ceylon Independent

Ceylon Independent

Latest news from Sri Lanka Politics Governance Corruption Human rights

  • About us
  • Autoplay scroller
  • Ceylon Independent
  • Contact us
  • Delta Flight 15 on 9/11 – DAY Brightener
  • Home New
  • Home Page
  • Home page – Blog
  • Home page – Left Sidebar
  • hp2
  • Independent.lk
  • LEGAL ISSUES
  • Magazine
  • Members
  • Page Builder
  • Progress Bars
  • Promotion Boxes
  • Provoking Thought – with FARAZ
  • Sri Lanka’s trade deficit widens for fifth consecutive month
  • Talk of the town
  • The five Central Bank Forensic Audit reports
  • Universities to reopen after vaccinating all students
  • Video test
  • weather
  • HOME
  • LOCAL
  • BUSINESS
  • ECONOMY
  • THE WORLD
    • MIDDLE EAST
  • ISSUES
    • LEGAL ISSUES
    • CORRUPTION / EXPOSE
    • EASTER TRAGEDY
  • FEATURED
    • TALK OF THE TOWN
    • TURNING POINT with FARAZ
  • EDITORIAL
  • NEWS LINE
  • ABOUT US

Tag: tea industry

Tea primps for Rs. 4.5 b global campaign
BUSINESSMain Story

Tea primps for Rs. 4.5 b global campaign

By Uditha Jayasinghe The long-awaited Rs. 4.5 billion international marketing campaign for Sri Lanka’s tea industry took a giant leap…

byFaraz Shauketaly22/03/2018
2017 tea production up 5% to 307mn kg, exports $1.5bn
BUSINESS

2017 tea production up 5% to 307mn kg, exports $1.5bn

Sri Lanka’s tea industry recovered in 2017 with the crop up 5% to 307 million kilos from a year ago…

byFaraz Shauketaly19/03/2018
Plantation Minister emphasizes the need for weedicides to prevent damage to tea industry
BUSINESS

Plantation Minister emphasizes the need for weedicides to prevent damage to tea industry

Sri Lanka’s Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake says an effective weedicide is promptly needed to prevent further damage to the…

byFaraz Shauketaly19/03/2018
Tea trips on blending ban
BUSINESSMain Story

Tea trips on blending ban

By Uditha Jayasinghe Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake yesterday sought to calm a panicked tea industry, firing off a letter…

byFaraz Shauketaly30/01/201830/01/2018

Stock Market


Exchange Rate

Exchange Rate USD: Sun, 19 Apr.


Latest News


  • President of Maldives Set to Travel to Sri Lanka May 3-6
  • Sri Lanka’s March Tourism Earnings Dive 37% Amid Middle East Tensions
  • Govt says it withheld over Rs. 9 billion from coal supplier over quality concerns
  • The Illusion of Progress: How Sri Lanka’s Development Model Collapsed.
  • In-Depth Analysis: Controversial Coal Agreement in Sri Lanka Leads to Energy Minister’s Resignation
FEATUREDOPINIONS

Unanswered questions in the NDB fraud: How did the System Fail?

byEditor 10/04/202610/04/2026
BUSINESSNEWS

Peter Hill tipped for SriLankan Airlines top job

byFaraz Shauketaly 10/04/202610/04/2026
OPINIONSTOP STORY

Inaction: Sri Lanka’s Most Consistent Policy When Scandal Meets Silence, Governance Becomes Theatre

byFaraz Shauketaly 10/04/202610/04/2026
FEATURED

NDB Fraud Live Updates

byFaraz Shauketaly 09/04/202609/04/2026
BUSINESSTECHNOLOGY

Chat2Find Releases 255M+ Token Sri Lankan Trilingual AI Corpus via Hugging Face and Lanka Data

bySienna De Silva 09/04/2026
BUSINESSFEATURED

The NDB Fraud: Hard Questions

byFaraz Shauketaly 07/04/202607/04/2026

CEYLON INDEPENDENT

Latest news from Sri Lanka Politics Governance Corruption Human rights

EXCLUSIVE


Economy & Business

Corruption & Exposure

Easter Tragedy

Talk of the Town

PRIVACY


About us

Privacy Policy

Disclaimer

Editorial Policy

CONTACT


Editor-in-Chief:  farazcolombo@gmail.com

Advertorials: editor@independent.lk

Technical: info@independent.lk 

 Advertising: +94 77 230 0305

Copyright © 2026 Ceylon Independent | Media News by Ascendoor | Powered by WordPress.