TSHDA-Solidaridad strengthen SL’s smallholder tea sector

REGENAGRI, CONTROL UNION AND TEA RESEARCH INSTITUTE LEAD CAPACITY BUILDING TO ADVANCE SMALLHOLDER SUSTAINABILITY IN TEA SECTOR

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In a major step toward transforming Sri Lanka’s smallholder tea sector, the Tea Small Holdings Development Authority (TSHDA) and Solidaridad, in partnership with Regenagri, Control Union and Nucleus Foundation, concluded a two-day capacity building workshop on the Regenagri standards for tea extension officers.

Held on April 23 and 24, 2025, at the TSHDA Hantana Training Centre in Kandy, the programme brought together over 50 participants from eight regions, which represent all tea growing areas in Sri Lanka. The participants included the TSHDA senior tea inspectors representing all sub-offices (which are a pivotal point of technology dissemination), extension officers of the selected tea factories under the Pivituru national initiative factory-based extension programme and selected progressive tea smallholder farmers.