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TSHDA with Solidaridad drives Sri Lanka's leadership in low-carbon, regenerative tea value chains
Daily FT
|April 25, 2025
Regenagri, Control Union and TRI lead capacity building to advance smallholder sustainability in tea sector
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IN a major step towards 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 Regenagri standards for tea extension officers.
Held on 23 and 24 April at the TSHDA Hantana Training Centre in Kandy, the program brought together over 50 participants from eight regions which represent all tea-growing areas in Sri Lanka. Participants included TSHDA Senior Tea Inspectors (STIs) representing all sub-offices (which are pivotal points of technology dissemination), extension officers of the selected tea factories under the ‘Pivithuru’ national initiative factory-based extension program, and selected progressive tea smallholder farmers.
This story is from the April 25, 2025 edition of Daily FT.
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