Thursday, June 23, 2011

Tea production slightly high in May

Sri Lanka’s total Tea production for the year ended May 2011 has increased from 138.11 million kilos to 139.69 million kilos to date, latest data reveals. Accordingly, High Grown Tea production has slightly risen from 35.4 million kilos to 35.9 million kilos, and Low Grown Tea had increased from 78.6 million kilos to 80.8 million kilos.

However, the data depicts that Medium Grown Tea production had declined from 24.03 million kilos to 22.8 million kilos last year.

On the contrary, data also shows that High Grown Tea production on May 2011 had dipped to 8.2 million kilos compared to 10.23 million in May 2010, whilst Medium Grown Tea production had also fell from 6.8 million kilos to 5.7 million . However, the Low Grown Tea production had shot up from 16.7 million kilos to 18.16 million in May this year, compared to a year ago.

source - www.dailymirror.lk

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