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A cup of tea at the Armadillo? We must have thought we were in Milan
The Farmer and his Breadwinner have been back to Glasgow, the city in which he had his first job, at the university, where he had to help students to learn about economic history. I put it in that slightly odd way because I was in no position to teach anybody about anything, 23 years old and straight from the University of Aberdeen. I'll never get over my first class. It was a tutorial in which I had to get eight students to discuss the topic of the day, which was Malthusian Economics. Now that's all about population pressures and the fact that, left to themselves, people will breed at whatever rate is necessary to eat all the food available and to leave some people hungry. .
Another move towards better quality tea
COLOMBO: The Plantation Industries Ministry will introduce new regulations to raise the quality of green tea leaves. The new regulations are now with the Legal Draftsman. The regulations were formulated by the Ministry on the directions of Plantation Industries Minister D. M. Jayaratna, a Ministry spokesperson said. The decision to formulate new regulations, to enhance the quality of young tea leaves, was taken after considering that 30 per cent of the leaves get destroyed during transport. The leaves get ruined from the point they are plucked and loaded into lorries and are hauled up to tea factories, said ministry sources. Minister Jayaratna had instructed the Ministry Secretary, J. Abeywickrema to introduce new methods to minimize the damage caused to tea leaves.
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