St. Coombs tea fetches record prices
S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen - Kandy South Group
correspondent
St. Coombs Group, Talawakelle, embellished the final tea auction sale
for 2011 by selling a line Dust 1 at an all time record price of Rs 590
per kilogramme at the tea auctions held on December 21.
This line of tea was sold through tea brokers Forbes and Walker Tea
Brokers (Pvt) Limited. At the tea auctions held on December 14,
Craighead Estate, Udahentenna owned by Kahawatte Plantations sold a line
of Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe Fannings (PBOPF) for an all time record
price of Rs 700 per kilogramme through their brokers Forbes and Walker
under the Western medium high grown category.
Craighead Estate also obtained the top prices for several other
grades of tea at this auction. |