Balanced plant nutrition critical for sustainable tea cultivation.

Byline: S. Kamal Hayder Kazmi

Sri Lanka is a humid tropical country with two main monsoon seasons endowed with well-distributed year-round rainfall. Tea is the only major perennial commercial economic crop grown widely in all three elevations and rainfall zones and in 14 districts under varying temperature, rainfall, elevation, topography and terrain. It provides direct employment to over 600,000 people engaged in cultivation and processing and indirect employment to a further 200,000 involved in the supply chain. Thousands of...

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