{"id":14411,"date":"2025-11-20T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=14411"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:15:47","slug":"tea-production-sees-a-marginal-rise-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=14411","title":{"rendered":"Tea production sees a marginal rise in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gvytfytd.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14412\" style=\"width:445px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gvytfytd.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gvytfytd-180x120.jpeg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s tea harvest experienced a slight uptick in October 2025 compared to the previous year, according to provisional data from Forbes &amp; Walker Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this overall gain masked varying performances across the different growing elevations, with only the Low Grown segment reporting an increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total crop for October stood at 21.78 million kilogrammes Mnkg, a marginal rise of 0.50 Mnkg over the 21.28 Mnkg recorded in October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the overall monthly figure improved year-on-year, production in the High Grown and Medium Grown areas actually saw a decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Low Grown segment bucked the trend, showing a 5.96 rise to 14.34 Mnkg, making it the sole segment with positive growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the year to date, cumulative production for January to October reached 220.97 Mnkg, an increase of 2.82 Mnkg compared to the 218.15 Mnkg during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All elevations showed gains over the 2024 corresponding period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forbes &amp; Walker Research highlighted that while the overall cumulative figures show a modest recovery, the shifting output at the elevation level indicates an ongoing period of uneven growth for the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : Hiru News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s tea harvest experienced a slight uptick in October 2025 compared to the previous year, according to provisional data from Forbes &amp; Walker Research. However, this overall gain masked varying performances across the different growing elevations, with only the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}