CTC tea in demand in Kolkata tea auction market

Kolkata, Mar 11(UNI) CTC variety of tea was in the main sales driver of Kolkata tea auction market last week with a sale of 9,10,439 kgs.

Auction market report here today said there was good demand of the CTC variety of tea.

CTC was followed by the dust variety, sale of which stood at 4,55,655 kgs.

Around 94,673 kgs of Orthodox variety of tea was sold while sales Darjeeling stood at 25.400 kgs.

The report said all the varieties had good demand. In case of Darjeeling, the local dealers were the mainstay of the market. For CTC and Orthodox varieties, local and North Indian buyers were active. There was CIS inquiry for the Orthodox variety, the report added.

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