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REVIVAL OF CEYLON TEA-by Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Source:Dailynews Not often is it that men have heart when their one great industry is withered, to rear up in a few years another as rich to take its place, and the tea fields of Ceylon are as true a monument to courage as is the lion at Waterloo. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes Tea production is one of the main sources of foreign exchange for Sri Lanka, and accounts for 2% of GDP, contributing over US$ 1.3 billion in 2021 to the economy of Sri Lanka. It employs, directly or indirectly, over 1 million people, and in 1995 directly employed 215,338 on tea plantations and estates. Unfortunately the non-availability of chemical fertilizer had adversely affected Sri Lanka’s tea production. But the Government has successfully negotiated the foreign exchange required for the import of necessary fertilizer supplies and with the ...