Tea inspired Breakfast with t-series tea croissants egg berries flowers and newspaper

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TEA brews toxic blend for its own survival

Sri Lanka produces approximately 330 million kg tea per year and every kilo is sold at the highest prices in the world, a value dictated by the uniqueness of "Ceylon Tea". To dilute that advantage by the uncritical emulation of the highly-efficient, volume-driven strategies of multinational giants who rely on cheap, multi-origin packs, is a sure recipe for disaster. Selling cheap, one can only scramble at the bottom end for an uncertain survival – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara

World’s First Private Sector Owned Climate Change Research Station in Sri Lanka

Dilmah Founder, Merrill J Fernando inaugurated the first private sector owned climate change research station- Dilmah Conservation Centre for Climate Change Research and Adaptation,  in fulfilment of his founding commitment to make business a matter of human service. The establishment is expected to play a fundamental research on climate change and its impact on agriculture and food security, with key emphasis on tea production.