This World Environment Day, we are excited to announce that we are launching an agroforestry model in Rilhena in collaboration with Kahawatte Plantations and Agriculture Innovation Nucleus in Sri Lanka! This is the latest among a host of green restoration initiatives that include our flagship project of building a Biodiversity Corridor through an abandoned tea land to link two separated forest reserves.
Our green initiatives align with Sri Lanka’s NDC of restoring forest cover by 32% and the global call to restore 1 billion hectares by 2030.
We believe the success of this model will pave the way to extend agroforestry to our other tea estates. The transition from monoculture will have many benefits such as enhancing biodiversity, crop yield, water management, resistance to pests and diseases, soil health and climate resilience. Apart from planting forest trees, we are also planning to establish cash crops such as durians, rambutans, garcinia, and pepper at the site.
