Volume dips at Coonoor tea auctions due to unfavourable weather

For sale 29 of the auctions of Coonoor Tea Trade Affiliation to be held on Thursday and Friday just after the Bakrid holidays in quite a few nations, a volume of 23.eighty four lakh kg is staying supplied.

This is as a great deal as 1.twenty lakh kg fewer than the offer you for previous week’s auctions.

The reduced offer you is stated to be for the reason that of a slide in creation arising from unfavourable weather conditions problems. “The existing weather conditions is not conducive for high-quality creation of huge quantity tea,” Ramesh Chander, President, The Nilgiris Compact Tea Growers’ Affiliation advised BusinessLine.

“There has been major wind for the earlier 10 days which has built the tea leaves glimpse like paper without having the a great deal-required juice. This will influence the high-quality of the made tea. With no sunshine for some days now and the greater part of modest growers engaged in ‘Devahabba’ area competition of the Baduga community previous week, we anticipate a twenty for every cent slide in tea creation until August stop,” he stated.

Of the 23.eighty four lakh kg supplied for this week’s auctions, as a great deal as 22.65 lakh kg belongs to CTC wide range and only 1.19 lakh kg orthodox wide range. In the leaf tea counter, only seventy eight,000 kg belongs to orthodox though 17.41 lakh kg, CTC. Amid the dust tea, only 41,000 kg belongs to orthodox though 5.24 lakh kg, CTC. In all, eighteen.19 lakh kg belongs to Leaf grades and 5.65 lakh kg, Dust grades.

The eco-friendly tea from Pascoes Woodlands, auctioned by Paramount Tea Marketing (SI) P Ltd, topped the auctions previous week when Shree Ganesh Tea Investing Business purchased it for ₹305 a kg. Amid CTC teas, Homedale Estate’s Damaged Orange Pekoe Fanning grade, auctioned by World wide Tea Brokers, topped when Tea Companies India Pvt Ltd purchased it for ₹297 a kg.

Quotations with the brokers indicated ₹75-seventy seven a kg for basic Leaf grades and ₹156-198 for the ideal grades. For basic Dust grades, they ranged ₹77-eighty four and for the ideal grades, ₹174-216.