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NEW YORK (May 15, 2019) — Manik Jayakumar, founder of QTrade Teas & Herbs, will receive The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award at World Tea Expo, to be held June 11-13 (with a pre-conference program on June 10) at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev. Read More
Malcolm Harold de Run was a late beginner in the late 1950s, a fast finisher in the late 1960s, and way ahead of his time as a plantation manager. Read More
I have previously written about my great, great grandfather Charles Joseph Braine (1814-1890), who became a coffee and tea planter in Ceylon... Read More
C.J. Braine was born in Middlesex, England, in 1814, the seventh of eleven children. At his baptism, his father’s (place of) occupation is stated as Navy office. Read More
Let me at the outset congratulate the Chairman, Mr Merrill Fernando and Dilhan for the unique initiative and vision in embarking on this mission of recording the often unrecognized aspects of tea industry in Sri Lanka Read More
“Wisdom in the leaf” is an appropriate title for this informative book contributed by well-known experienced and knowledgeable retired planters and selected tea scientists. Read More
Merrill Fernando, founder of Dilmah Tea, the renowned tea company in Sri Lanka, has spent all his adult life working for the success of the tea industry in Sri Lanka and for the good of the Sri Lankan people. Read More
Planters’ had to often contend with solitude due to travel constraints in time and distance between plantations and ‘civilisation’. This resulted in many a bond being created between planting colleagues whose social lives also revolved around each others company. Read More
