A breakdown of operating profits from different business segments revealed that while tea was the main revenue generator, bringing in revenue of 533 million rupees, it made an operating loss of 32.9 million.
Watawala's rubber sector earned a profit of just over a million rupees on revenue of 34.8 million rupees.
Tea prices rose sharply earlier this year but plantations firms were hit by a severe shortfall in production owing to last year's strike and go-slow by unionised labour.
This was particularly felt because the Western quality season at the start of the year, when tea firms with high grown estates on the Western slopes of the island's central massif make good money, was affected.
Also, the wage hike wrested by labour unions is beginning to bite while the plantation firms have had to cope with rising energy costs.
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