The Ministry of Agriculture and Plantation Industries just lately signed a memorandum of understanding with Unilever PVT Ltd, a number one personal firm in Sri Lanka, to implement a joint program to guard Sri Lankan tea’s sustainable tea title within the worldwide market.
Below the patronage of the Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Industries, Mr. Mahinda Amaraweera, the signing of this MoU below the title of Public Personal Folks’s Partnership Program for the Sustainable Plantation Sector was performed on the Ministry of Plantation Industries.
The first aims of signing this MoU are to strengthen the tea trade in Sri Lanka and to provide tea with accepted standardization for the worldwide market.
In an effort to preserve the tea trade as an environmentally pleasant cultivation, the report on the nationwide framework for sustainable biomass cultivation and supply certification for the Sri Lankan tea trade ready by the Wanaropa DeVots Institute, which operates below the auspices of the Moral Tea Partnership group, was additionally handed over on this event.
Particularly for drying tea, 560,000 metric tons of firewood is required per 12 months and for that 1.5 million timber need to be minimize down per 12 months. Due to this, acquiring firewood in a way that doesn’t trigger environmental injury in tea manufacturing and implementing alternate options to it have been launched by this nationwide framework.
Plantation corporations have restricted afforestation for this firewood requirement, however 65 % of tea producing corporations nonetheless should not have everlasting afforestation. Nonetheless they get firewood from exterior events.
This nationwide framework was additionally handed over to the Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Trade Mr. Mahinda Amaraweera.
All of the international locations of the world have expressed the worldwide settlement to implement Web Zero Emission goal. Sri Lanka has additionally signed it. Due to this fact, we must always scale back using firewood for drying tea in tea manufacturing in our nation in addition to implement alternate options to forestall forest injury.
The minister who expressed his views on this stated that this program, which is being carried out with the cooperation of private and non-private sector in addition to public sector for the development of tea cultivation in Sri Lanka, will be capable of preserve the standard and normal of tea in Sri Lanka.
And to guard the title of Ceylon tea, the manufacturing of rejected tea needs to be introduced down as a lot as attainable. The minister additionally talked about that the B-60 coverage carried out for that objective has been made obligatory and if the coverage just isn’t carried out, it’s the accountability of the Ceylon Tea Board to revoke the licenses issued to the related corporations.
A minimum of 60 % of the harvested tea leaves needs to be maintained in prime quality by the respective tea factories. The minister additionally talked about that if this isn’t performed, the worldwide demand for Sri Lankan tea will decline and finally this trade might collapse.
