ABSTRACT
Sri Lanka is an island state located to the southeast of the Indian sub-continent. It is the third largest tea producer in the world, after India and China, and ranks first as an exporter. Tea plantations in Sri Lanka currently cover a land area of approximately 210,000ha, which is about 3.1 per cent of the total land area or 12 per cent of the cultivable land of the country, and stretch from the lowlands below 50m in elevation to the highlands above 2000m in elevation.
