High Volume Offerings At Coonoor Tea Sales

Coonoor: Volume offered for sale at the auctions of the Coonoor Tea trade Association (CTTA) has increased to year's high following increased arrivals due to good rains in the plantation pockets. Catalogues of the different brokers total up to a volume of 12.81 lakh kg for Sale No: 43 to be held here Oct 26 and Oct 26. It is some 60,000 kg more than the volume offered this time last year. Of the 12.81 lakh kg, as much as 9.05 lakh kg belong to the leaf grades and 3.76 lakh kg belong to the dust grades. In the leaf counter, only 0.20 lakh kg belong to the orthodox, while 9.05 lakh kg, CTC. Among the dusts, only 0.37 lakh kg belong to the orthodox, while 3.76 lakh kg, CTC. Of the 12.81 lakh kgs, some 9.67 lakh kg are said to be fresh offers.