Sri Lanka, Aug. 12 -- Regional Plantation Companies (RPC) are not re investing as much as private tea smallholders, Minister of Plantation Industries Navin Dissanayake told the 125th AGM of the Colombo Tea Traders Association (CTTA).

He said the RPC's should do more replanting and also look into introducing more scientific methods towards the tea industry. The Minister said that this had resulted in 73% of tea exports been done by tea smallholders. The government has supported them and during the last few years, we have invested over Rs 3 billion towards them.

The Minister said that looking back at the last 4 years, he had mixed feelings about the industry and its performance and also the role played by him. "The plantation industry fac...