{"id":132573,"date":"2023-02-27T17:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T00:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132573"},"modified":"2023-02-27T17:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T00:27:16","slug":"sri-lanka-tea-industry-to-fully-recover-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/02\/27\/sri-lanka-tea-industry-to-fully-recover-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka tea industry to fully recover next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Feb 27 (Bernama) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s tea production is expected to fully recover next year after last year\u2019s drop, the country\u2019s Environment Minister Naseer Ahamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tea industry, a key foreign exchange earner, saw its output decline by 16 per cent to 251.5 million kilogrammes in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The production has dropped because of the fertilizer issue. It will recover by next year,\u201d Naseer told Bernama in New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was in India to attend an environment summit organised by the Energy and Resources Institute, a not-for-profit organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous Sri Lankan government of Gotabaya Rajapaksa had banned the use of agrochemicals such as fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides in its organic\u201d agriculture experiment in April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It led to a significant drop in crop yields, forcing the government to revoke the move in November that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuel, food and fertilizers were among the key essential goods that were in short supply as Sri Lanka was hit by its worst economic crisis in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naseer said the fertilizer issue is now permanently resolved\u201d as the country is again using agrochemicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said tea production will definitely\u201d reach its normal levels next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka earned about US$1.3 billion from 250.19 million kg tea exports last year, according to the Tea Exporters Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country also aims to grow its tea export competitiveness and earnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will have more value-added products. In another two years, the value of exports will be much more,\u201d Naseer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Feb 27 (Bernama) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s tea production is expected to fully recover next year after last year\u2019s drop, the country\u2019s Environment Minister Naseer Ahamed said. The tea industry, a key foreign exchange earner, saw its output decline by 16 per cent to 251.5 million kilogrammes in 2022. The production has dropped because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}