The weekly Dust tea auctions of Coonoor Tea Trade Association which are typically held on Fridays will be held on Saturday this week due to the fact the market was shut on Friday for Ramalan / Ramadan pageant.

In all, 7.08 lakh kg Dust quality will be presented for this Sale No: 19. Of this, six.53 lakh kg belongs to CTC range and fifty five,000 kg, orthodox range.

Jointly with the leaf grades, a overall of 22.89 lakh kg is becoming presented for this sale which will conclude on Saturday.

It is the second greatest volume so much this calendar – just forty three,000 kg less than the year’s greatest volume of 23.32 lakh kg presented a fortnight in the past.

This is as a lot as 2.08 lakh kg additional the offer for the earlier week and includes some teas unsold in earlier auctions but most volume is new arrival of the teas made with the eco-friendly leaf plucked after the latest unseasonal but favourable rains.

“The eco-friendly tea of Pascoes Woodlands topped the total auctions last week when Ketti Valley Tea Indian Pvt Ltd purchased it for ₹300 a kg,” Ravichandran Broos, Typical Supervisor of Paramount Tea Marketing, who auctioned this tea, explained to BusinessLine.

Amid orthodox teas, Kodanad obtained ₹284, Chamraj ₹271, Kairbetta ₹243, Glendale ₹232, Havukal ₹230 and Nonsuch Orthodox ₹221.

Homedale Estate’s Crimson Dust quality, auctioned by World wide Tea Brokers, topped the CTC auctions when GLT Enterprises purchased it for ₹270 a kg. Amid other CTC teas, Pinewood Estate obtained ₹261, Crosshill Estate Exclusive ₹256 and Vigneshwar Estate ₹206.

Quotations with the brokers indicated ₹95-104 a kg for basic Leaf grades and ₹ one hundred sixty-182 for the ideal grades. For basic Dust grades, they ranged ₹100-102 and for the ideal grades, ₹150-206.

The Coonoor tea auctions are becoming held after the Nilgiris collector Innocent Divya exempted them from the ongoing lockdown in Tamil Nadu to deal with the Covid pandemic.

Stating that tea is an crucial commodity, she accorded authorization for conduct of e-auction and other functions relating to tea trade, manufacture and plantation, other than in containment zones.