A extent of sixteen.07 lakh kg has been catalogued on the market 3 of the auctions of Coonoor Tea Trade Association to be hung on Thursday and Friday.

This is some fifty six,000 kg much less than the offer for the preceding public sale.
Of the sixteen.07 lakh kg provided for this week’s auctions, as a great deal as 15.14 lakh kg belongs to CTC range and only ninety three,000 kg orthodox range. In the leaf tea counter, simplest 63,000 kg belongs to orthodox while 10.Forty five lakh kg, CTC. Among the dirt tea, most effective 30,000 kg belongs to orthodox at the same time as four.Sixty nine lakh kg, CTC. In all, 11.08 lakh kg belongs to Leaf grades and four.Ninety nine lakh kg, Dust grades.

Homedale Estate’s Red Dust tea, auctioned via Global Tea Brokers, created a brand new report for the manufacturing facility closing week when Badhusha Tea Co., sold it for ₹ 383 a kg – the best in seventy two years of Homedale’s production. In the Leaf tea auctions, Homedale’s Broken Orange Pekoe grade, auctioned by means of GTB, crowned at ₹ 356 a kg. These grades had been the only teas which crossed ₹300/kg mark that week. The Broken Orange Pekoe grade of Crosshill Estate Special, auctioned by means of GTB, got here 2nd at ₹ 290 a kg.

Quotations with the agents indicated ₹ 112-117 a kg for simple Leaf grades and ₹ 161-227 for the nice grades. For plain Dust grades, they ranged ₹ 118-127 and for the first-class grades, ₹ 171-231.