TRI won the National Awards for Excellence in Agricultural Research


Dr. I Sarath B Abeysinghe, Director of the TRI, Dr. P A Nimal Punyasiri,
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Tea Research Institute of Sri Lanka launches new website

A newly upgraded website for the Tea Research Institute (TRI) was ceremonially launched by the Hon. Minister of Plantations Industries, Mr. Mahinda Samarasinghe (MP) on 11th July 2011 at the auditorium of the Ministry.
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New Kaluthara Extension Centre was declared open

A new Extension Centre was established at Nivithigala- kelle, Matugama for the benefit of the tea growers of the Kaluthara and Colombo Districts.

The new ...

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Third Symposium on Plantations Crop Research

This biannual symposium on plantation crop research was successfully held from 30th September 2010 to 01st October 2010 at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo. The even...

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This Division is engaged in developing technologies in different stages of tea processing, with more emphasis being given to black tea, and is also responsible for developing/ modifying machinery related to tea processing in order to improve the quality of the product, and reduce cost of processing by conserving electrical and thermal energy.

In addition, it provides advisory services to stakeholders related to tea processing such as on- call factory visits to rectify problems associated with tea processing, calibration of necessary equipment for system certification such as HACCP, ISO 22000, laboratory analyses to determine ISO related specific constituents in made tea, and moisture determination of made tea, green leaf and withered leaf samples etc.

Key Research Areas
  • Automation of withering and drying processes
  • Identification of alternative energy sources for tea processing
  • Development and improvement of machinery to reduce cost of tea processing and to improve made tea quality

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Major Achievements

  • Development of TRI – CCC collaborative fluid bed drier
  • Fabrication of a test–rig to evaluate the performance of withering trough fans as per ISO standards
  • Fabrication and installation of a temperature indicator alarm unit to monitor drier inlet or/and outlet temperatures
  • Development of a mathematical model to predict / calculate the real time moisture content of tea leaves in trough withering
  • Design of a computer generated rolling program to draw pre-adjusted rolling program for Orthodox / Orthodox RV mix manufacture
 
 
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