Wednesday, 28th January 2015
COLOMBO, Jan. 28 (Xinhua)- Sri Lanka's tea industry has achieved an all-time high export performance both in volume and value recording 1.6 billion U.S. dollars in earnings for 2014, tea brokers said in a short statement on Wednesday.
Ceylon Tea Brokers noted that cumulative Sri Lanka tea exports for 2014 recorded 327.87 million kgs thus recording an all-time high surpassing the previous highest of 327.41 million kgs in 2006.
In 2013, the recorded quantity was 319.66 million kgs. "Cumulative tea export earnings for 2014 was 1.63 billion U.S. dollars compared to 1.54 billion U.S. dollars in 2013,"Ceylon Tea Brokers said in the statement.
Turkey replaced Russia as Sri Lanka's top export country with an export volume of 44.74 million kgs in 2014.
Russia along with the other Commonwealth countries continues to be Sri Lanka's biggest export market.
From : http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2015-01/28/c_133953949.htm
