Kalubowitiyana tea scores high at tea auction

Theja Vidyarupa - Akuressa group correspondent

The CTC tea factory at Kalubowitiyana highland colonization scheme in Matara District managed by the Kalubowitiyana Tea Factory under the administration of the Plantation Industries Ministry has shown a vast progress, with its production on a satisfactory level. During last year, the factory had obtained a highest price of Rs 640 per kilogram for the main grade hygenic CTC tea at the Colombo tea auction.

As a result of this for the first time the factory had paid a record price of Rs 78.40 per kilogram for green leaf supplied by the tea smallholders, the chairman of the company Donald Abeysundara said.

Meanwhile, the factory has launched a social and welfare programme for smallholders, school children, Dhamma schools and health clinics and also to distributed coconut seedlings to improve home gardening in the area.