Historical Tea association form in Sri Lanka. (World News).(Tea Association of Sri Lanka )

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, June, 2003

SRI LANKA -- Six key stakeholders in Sri Lanka's tea industry have formed a federation as a pan-industry apex body, be-lieved to be the first of its kind by a major tea producing country, a senior minister announced recently.

The Tea Association of Sri Lanka (TASL) is intended, to transform the 135-year-old industry into a truly global force and facilitate a greater private sector role in strategy formulation, and implementation, Plantation Industries Minister Lakshman Kiriella said.

The minister told a news conference the association, representing tea producers, traders, exporters, smallholders, private factory owners and brokers, would in its initial states be funded largely through the on-going Asian Development Bank (ADB) supported Plantation...

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