This Assam tea sold at Rs 75,000 per kg
Guwahati, Aug 14 (IBNS): After the record breaking sale of a rare variety of handmade Assam tea called the Golden Tips Tea from Maijan garden of Assam Company Limited fetched Rs 70,501 per kg at the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre (GTAC), the Golden Butterfly Tea of Dikom Tea Estate of Rossell Tea Industries set a world record on Tuesday after it has auctioned at Rs 75,000 per kg.
It is claimed to be as the highest price ever paid for tea in a public auction.
The Golden Butterfly Tea of Dikom Tea Eastate was sold through GTAC broker by J Thomas & Co Pvt Ltd in GTAC Sale no 33.
The tea is bought by one of the oldest tea shops in Guwahati M/S Assam Tea Traders for their customers.
M/S Assam Tea Traders owner Pallav Jalan said that, it is a very rare tea which we purchased.
“Everyone tea garden can’t make this tea. The manager of the Dikom Tea Estate said that, there is an area where the butterflies come in the early morning and evening and lay on the tea bushes. This tea has been made from the leaves of that particular tea bushes. Normally tea has been made from three leaves of a tea plant, but this tea has made from the non-mature first leave. The butterflies do not go there where medicine, pesticides have been used,” Pallav Jalan said.
Earlier on August 1, Guwahati based Mundhra Tea Company Private Limited had purchased the orthodox Golden Tips Tea from Maijan tea garden at the record price of Rs 70,501 per kg and the broker was Parcon(India) Private Limited, the second-largest tea auctioneer in North- India.
On July 30, a rare variety of handmade tea called the ‘Manohari Gold’ manufactured by the Manohari Tea Estate in upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district was fetched Rs 50,000 per kg at the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre and it bought by Saurabh Tea Traders of Guwahati.
It is to be mentioned that, Assam is one of the world’s largest tea-growing region as the industry continued to grow for 200 years now and Assam tea is very famous in the world.
According to the reports, around 17.41 crore kg tea was sold at the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre in 2016-17 and the figure grow up to 18.44 crore kg in 2017-18, 18.29 crore kg in 2018-19.
In this financial year, around 4.22 crore kg has been auctioned at the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre so far.
A total of 1241 tea gardens and 244 buyers have been registered at the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre.
Around 10.50 lakh tea labourers have been directly engaged in the Assam tea industry.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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