CTC variety tea high in demand in auction market

Thursday, February 22, 2007, 14:05 [IST]

Kolkata, Feb 22: CTC variety of tea was the main mover and shaker in Kolkata tea auction centre last week ending on February 14, according to a report released by Kolkata Tea Brokers' Statistics department.

The report said there was good demand of CTC variety and 12,27,862.30 kgs tea were sold. This was followed by Dust variety which sold 6,48,282.80 kg.

Orthodox and Darjeeling tea also had good demand.

This week around 72,848 kg of Orthodox variety and 17,954 kgs of Darjeeling tea were sold in the Kolkata market.

In Siliguri market also CTC had good demand.

UNI

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