Tea

The Sri Lankan tea industry is the country's largest employer providing jobs directly and indirectly to over a million people. It also contributes a significant amount to Government revenue and to the gross domestic product. Sri lanka is the 3rd biggest tea producer with a market share of 9%. The total land used for tea cultivation is approximately 187,309 hectares. Sri Lankan tea has unique characteristics and reputation as arguably the best teas in the world. The ideal climatic conditions of the plantation give the teas a variety of rich flavours and aromas, which indicate high quality.

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Rubber and Rubber Product

The rubber industry took hold in Sri Lanka more than 125 years ago, when the island was still known as Ceylon and was still ruled by the British. Rubber remains a driving force for the country’s economy; 300,000 Sri Lankans are dependent on it. Latex crepe, created in Sri Lanka to be used for the manufacture of clear adhesives and light-colored articles, is considered the “champagne” of natural rubber and has historically fared well in international markets. But over the years, demand shifted to synthetics, depressing prices. Producers’ failure to market latex crepe imaginatively and with a clear understanding of end-user needs only compounded the problem. Among the hardest hit were smallholder growers, who contribute more than 60 percent of Sri Lanka’s average production of 110,000 tons of rubber a year.

Gem & Jewellery

Sri Lanka is renowned for its finest gems from very ancient times. Sri Lanka gems have been pre-eminent internationally and the source books of history record the historical importance of Sri Lanka gems. The availability of historical as well as traditional know-how among jewellery manufacturers in the country have added more luster to the situation.

Coconut & Coconut Product

Coconut which is the largest plantation crop in terms of land extent, occupies an eminent position in the Sri Lankan agriculture. The extent of land under coconut is only second to rice. Coconut occupies 394,836 hectare which is 21 per cent of the agricultural land area. Coconut is a multipurpose crop providing nutritional food, healthy drink and also used as a raw material for a number of products such as desiccated coconut (DC), copra, coconut oil, coconut milk powder, coconut milk/ cream, arrack and toddy, horticultural products including coco pith, coir, shell charcoal, activated carbon and fuel.

Handycraft

Sri Lanka is known world over for her handicrafts. These products are manufactured by applying age-old techniques that have been handed down from generation to generation.
These artifacts are manufactured by using only the tools particular to them and from raw materials found abundant in nature.

History mentions that crafting of these were limited to a section of people who were given royal patronage and were identified as people belonging to a specific caste (there were many castes and one such caste was in the business of making these artifacts). This type of segregation helped to give a unique identity to this industry over the times. Even today one would find the same authentic procedures involved in the making of such handicrafts strictly observed.
These handicrafts are an integral part of the Sri Lankan culture. Sri Lanka being a country in the tropics, where many a colourful facades of nature are omnipresent, it is not out of place that many of these handicrafts are quite vibrant and dramatic