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P.S. Sundar

Coonoor, July 25

The falling trend in volumes at the Coonoor Tea trade Association auctions witnessed in the last few weeks continues this week also. Sale No: 30 will be held on Thursday and Friday with a total volume of 12.08 lakh kg.

This is the lowest volume of the last five weeks. It is some 15,000 kgs lower than the offer of last week. This time last year, only 10.52 lakh kg were offered.

Of the 12.08 lakh on offer now, as much as 8.87 lakh kg belong to the leaf grades and 3.21 lakh kg, dust grades. Again, as much as 10.98 lakh kg belong to the CTC variety and only 1.1 lakh kg belong to the orthodox variety.

The proportion of orthodox variety continues to be low in both the leaf and dust grades. In the leaf grade, only 0.53 lakh kg belong to the orthodox, while 8.34 lakh kg belong to the CTC. In the dust grade, only 0.57 lakh kg belong to the orthodox while 2.64 lakh kg belong to the CTC variety.

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