High Cliff Tea manufacturing unit, a small-scale sold tea leaf manufacturing unit, placed in a small hamlet known as Kengarai in The Nilgiris district created a hat-trick through topping the complete South Indian auctions for the 1/3 consecutive week.

“At Sale No: 34 of the auctions of Coonoor Tea Trade Association (CTTA), two grades of High Cliff Speciality orthodox teas had been sold via Nisha Enterprises each at ₹400 a kg for export to america,” Ravichandran Broos, General Manager of Paramount Tea Marketing, who auctioned those teas, informed BusinessLine.
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“This turned into the best charge now not best in Coonoor public sale however the entire South India this week for any tea, orthodox or CTC, from any manufacturing facility, corporate or small-scale,” he stated.

“This is the fourth time our teas have entered ₹four hundred/kg mark inside the remaining one month but hat-trick has been recorded due to three consecutive topping. We synthetic those teas for ‘The Golden Leaf India Award: Southern Tea Competition’, an initiative of Tea Board and UPASI in which we bagged two coveted titles,” High Cliff’s Managing Director B Rajesh Chander stated.

“This is the best rate fetched via those grades of our teas in normal auctions considering manufacturing started out in 1984 in our Hittakkal institution to which High Cliff belongs,” he pointed out.

“We are happy that we’ve fetched record charges in South Indian regular weekly auctions for eight of our grades within seven months of our converting our manufacturing facility into specific orthodox tea manufacturing unit,” he cited.

Another small-scale sold leaf manufacturing facility Homedale Tea Industry located in Coonoor emerged because the simplest one to fetch over ₹three hundred/kg and therefore pinnacle the entire CTTA auctions after High Cliff.

“In the CTC marketplace, Homedale Estate’s Pekoe Dust grade, auctioned by using Global Tea Brokers, crowned while we bought it for ₹301 a kg,” G Thiagarajan, Proprietor, Shree Abirami Enterprises, stated.
“We offered this for the use of discerning connoisseurs in The Nilgiris who pick its particular flavour and taste. We are promoting it as a unmarried-manufacturing facility grade without any combination to retain its originality,” he stated.