Tea is a team effort: Charleston Tea Company serves up an all-American cup

Southwest of Charleston, the Charleston Tea Company is the nation’s only commerical tea farm. The staff have to turn outside of the country for guidance.
The Sunday Times

Going “nuts over nuts”

The total acreage of coconut land was 1.095 million in 2024 while in 1962 it was 1.152 million, giving an indication of the ...
The Diplomat

An Unfair Trade: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tea Workers

Since childhood, Karthika has spent her life in the tea fields of Ella, picking leaves to meet her daily quota. For 18 kilograms, she earns just $4.36 a day. Even after last year’s government pay ...
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Sri Lanka tea workers struggling on low pay, hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah's devastation

Tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka’s central highlands are struggling to survive after deadly floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah. Entire villages were buried, hundreds killed, and ...
The Telegraph

Sri Lanka tea workers struggle in poverty. Flooding cost many their lives

CRAIGHEAD ESTATE, Sri Lanka (AP) — Arumugam Manikavalli, awakened by ferocious rain and rumbling earth, fled her home for the safety of a nearby temple on the tea estate where she works. That same ...