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Article: In Sri Lanka, tea exporters hopeful with 26-year-old civil war finally over: Asia's longest-running ethnic conflict has finally come to an end, but up here in the Hill Country of Nuwara Eliya--only 200 miles due south of the last major battle--you would have hardly known a war was going on at all.(Sri Lankan Tea)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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A cool breeze rustles the trees in the early-morning mist. At the plantation guest house where this reporter has been graciously hosted by the Sri Lanka Tea Board, a fireplace has been burning all night; despite the tropical island's location seven degrees north of the Equator, it gets quite cold at these remote elevations. Over a breakfast of scrambled eggs, fresh mangoes, pineapples, toast, homemade jam and premium Ceylon tea, Johann Rodrigo talks about his job as deputy general manager of Kelani Valley Plantations PLC, known locally as Pedro Estate.
"I've been in the business for 25 years," says Rodrigo, 43. One of Sri Lanka's ...