Tea

Sri Lankan tea industry is the country’s largest and best resource in terms of earning foreign exchange, value addition and employment generation.  Pure Ceylon tea is famous in the world and it is the number one agriculture based foreign exchange earner to the country contributing 20% to the total foreign exchange earning. Sri Lanka has a strong & vibrant tea industry with a prominent brand name.

Ceylon tea is grown in three different elevations and possesses unique and specific characteristics of quality & taste attribute to its geographical origin & unique manufacturing practices.

Sri Lankan tea cultivated and manufactured without use of Methyl Bromide (MeBr) or any other Ozone depletion substances was the world’s first to achieve the status as “Ozone Friendly Tea” recognized under the Montreal Protocol Treaty.

With the development of the Sri Lankan tea industry, export of Green Tea has achieved a commanding height in the world tea market. Currently, Sri Lanka markets her green tea to more than forty countries mainly to the United Arab Emirates, Russian Federation and to Jordan.

The Sri Lankan Government has taken steps to upgrade the tea processing factories and personnel involved in the industry to maintain sufficient technical and hygienic standards and implement ISO 22000, HACCP as the principal monitoring programme for processing of tea. Sri Lanka is known as the producer of the cleanest Tea in the world in terms of Pesticide residues and it is confirmed by the ISO Technical Committee.