Tea Convention today

Hiran H.Senewiratne

The International Tea Committee (ITC) will hold its annual ‘Producer-Consumer’ meeting today at Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo and will continue till September 1.

To mark this occasion a Tea Convention with International Flavour on the theme, “SUSTAINABILITEA” is being organised by the Colombo Tea Traders’ Association in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Tea Board.

This meeting held in London since its inception in 2005 has now moved to other locations with one held in Nairobi, Kenya in November 2006 with the last FAO Inter Governmental Group meeting on tea.

This years theme is ‘SUSTAINABILITEA” and is the most appropriate for all stakeholders of the industry.