Sri Lanka earns from tea record highest revenue

Sri Lanka expected to earn a record $1.4 billion from their tea exports this year. Tea is Sri Lanka’s biggest cash crop; they earned $635 million rupees in the first six months of 2010. Sold on overseas markets as ‘Ceylon tea,’ they earned $1.3 billion in export sales in 2009, despite drought hitting production and shipments suffering from the effects of the global crash in 2008. Tea shipments from January to June rose to 143.3 million from 134.5 million kilogram’s in the same period of 2009, they said.