High and Medium grown:

Tea production increases in August

Sri Lanka’s August, 2010 tea production figures released by the Sri Lanka Tea Board shows a monthly output of 25,154,407 kg compared with 23,875,475 during the corresponding month in 2009. This reflects an increase of 1.2 million kgs or 5.36 percent.

The High and Medium Grown increases are 0.80 and 1.24 million kgs respectively, while the Low Grown production shows a deficit of 165,000 Kgs.

The total production for January/August, 2010, is 221.2 million kg compared with 181.8 million kg in 2009, reflecting an increase of 39.3 million kgs or 21.66 percent.

The Low Grown increase for this period is 23.2 million kgs, whilst the gain over last year’s Jan/Aug for High and Medium Growns is 6.5 MKGS and 9.5 MKGS respectively.