Price, volume sold & profits – all up
An detail of buoyancy turned into noticed at sale forty five of the auctions of Coonoor Tea Trade Association with an increase on all 3 parameters – price, quantity offered and the general income.

Although the export purchase persevered to be selective and more towards teas priced less than ₹100 a kg, upcountry customers stepped up their call for specially to cowl the viable short materials. “The recent floods in Kerala have precipitated a few concern approximately the provision of teas from there at the least for a few weeks necessitating us to build shares with Nilgiris teas”, a consumer told BusinessLine.
The increased demand driven up the common price to ₹ninety.32 a kg – the best of the last seven weeks. This turned into the first time due to the fact that October 1 that average prices have risen above ₹ninety/kg mark.

Nevertheless, buyers confirmed interest to soak up nice teas, even the steeply-priced ones. Consequently, 17.Fifty nine lakh kg changed into bought – the highest in a fortnight.

The better price and expanded sale volume driven up the overall earnings to ₹16.39 crore – the best in the last two months besides on October 29 while the profits rose to ₹16.46 crore.

Two grades of bought leaf factory Homedale Tea factory, auctioned by way of Global Tea Auctioneers Pvt Ltd (GTAPL) topped the whole auctions beating even the export-orientated orthodox teas from corporates.

Homedale Pekoe Dust grade, auctioned with the aid of GTAPL, crowned when Tea Services India Pvt Ltd., bought it for ₹325 a kg.

Homedale Broken Orange Pekoe Fannings grade, auctioned through GTAPL, crowned the Leaf tea auctions fetching ₹306.

These had been the most effective grades which crossed ₹300/kg.

Among other CTC teas, Cross Estate Premium got ₹280, Pinewood Estate ₹250 and Vigneshwar Estate ₹210.

Among orthodox teas, Chamraj got ₹252, Nonsuch Orthodox ₹211 and Kodanad ₹202.

Overall, almost 84 according to cent of the offer became bought.