Lanka earns US$ 1 b from tea
Sri Lanka earned a record one billion dollars from tea exports last
year despite a drop in volumes, the Tea Board said yesterday.
Sri Lanka, the world's largest exporter of tea after Kenya, earned
1.03 billion dollars in 2007, compared to 881.2 million dollars in 2006,
the Board said.
"This is the first time our exports have surpassed a billion dollars
in the 141-year-old tea industry," the Board added.
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