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 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.