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Tea export earnings continue to rise
Daily FT
|October 22, 2025
SRI Lanka Customs data analysed by Siyaka Research confirms that the country earned $ 1.16 billion from tea exports for the period January to September 2025. Almost 10% more than last year’s figure of $ 1.06 billion for the comparable period.
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Sri Lanka exported a healthy 23.7 million kilogrammes (Mnkg) in the month of September this year, up 20% on last year’s quantity of 19.7 Mnkg and boosted the cumulative total for the calendar year which has now risen to 198.3 Mnkg, up 9% on last year’s nine-month total of 182.3 Mnkg.
This story is from the October 22, 2025 edition of Daily FT.
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