Sri Lankan tea pickers’ dreams shattered by economic crisis

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Sri Lankan tea pickers’ dreams shattered by economic crisis

May 05 (Reuters) BOGAWANTALAWA- On a lush plantation in Sri Lanka, Arulappan Ideijody deftly plucks the tips of each tea bush, throwing them over her shoulder into an open basket on her back.

After a month of picking more than 18 kg (40 lb) of such tea leaves each day, she and her husband, fellow picker Michael Colin, 48, receive about 30,000 rupees, worth about $80 after the island nation devalued its currency.

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Sri Lankan tea pickers' dreams shattered by economic crisis

Plantation workers are affected more than most as they own no land to provide a cushion against soaring food prices.

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Sri Lanka’s tea farmers struggling to survive

July 20 (BBC) Leaves from the lush green tea estates covering the hills of central Sri Lanka end up in cups across the world. Tea is the island’s biggest export, normally bringing in more than $1bn a year, but the industry is being hard hit by the unprecedented economic crisis.

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Sri Lanka's tea farmers struggling to survive

Tea is the island's biggest export, but the industry is being hard hit by the economic crisis.

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