Sri Lanka's tsunami-hit famed cinnamon plantations reviving

Sri Lanka's famed cinnamon crop, battered when the Asian tsunami wiped out thousands of plants, is reviving with efforts to improve quality to fend off competition from cheaper substitute spices, mainly from China.

Cinnamon is Sri Lanka's fourth-biggest earner of hard currency after garments and textiles, tea, and rubber, and accounts for 60 percent of the country's total spice exports.