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ELEVEN GOLD MEDALS 



INDIAN TEA MARKET REVIEW. 



SEASON 1911-12. 



[By Messrs. (Jarritt Moran & Co.] 

 Calcutta, April, 1912.— Season 1911-12 has 

 closed with an actual crop, as represented by 

 shipments through Calcutta and Chittagong, of 

 245 million lb., of which 184 millions have been 

 shipped to the United Kingdom. Last year 

 the corresponding figures were 240 and 174 

 millions respectively. 



The quantity shipped from Chittagong has 

 totalled 55^ millions, an increase of 2£ millions 

 ie the clearances from that port. 



The amount of tea offered by public auction 

 in Calcutta has been rather more than in the 

 previous season, sales having totalled 78 mil- 

 lions of which 7 million lb. consisted of dust. 



SOUTHERN INDIA 



has shipped about the same quantity as last 

 season the actual figures being 18 J and 18J mil- 

 lions in 1911 aod 1910, respectively. Of these 

 rather over 



4J MILLIONS HAVE BEEN SOLD THROUGH THE 

 COLOMBO AUCTIONS 



against 3| millions in 1910. 



In respect of quality the crop has been 

 about average so far as liquor considerations 

 are concerned, for although fine tea has been 

 comparatively scarce, all districts with the 

 exception of the Dooars have maintained a 



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useful standard and at no period of the season 

 has the market been supplied with an un- 

 due proportion of plain ordinary teas. With 

 regard to appearance, however, the same cannot 

 be said, for rough stalky kinds have probably 

 never been more prevalent and this has not 

 been confined to districts where quantity is the 

 desideratum, but has extended to parts of Assam 

 from which this class of tea is not expected. 

 The almost entire 



ABSENCE OF FLAVOUR FROM ASSAM 



has been a feature ; the increased cultivation 

 and manuring that gardens in this district gene- 

 rally have received of recent years, and progres- 

 sive methods of pruning, have undoubtedly in- 

 fluenced freer growth, and it is not improbable 

 have at the same time enabled the bushes to 

 withstand the effects of the blight; that is to a 

 great extent responsible for this characteristic 

 in tea. In this connection it is interesting to 

 note from statistics issued by the Director Gen- 

 eral of Commercial Intelligence, that while the 

 outturn per acre in Cachar and Sylhet has dur- 

 ing the past five years increased only some 4 per 

 cent the yield per acre in the Brahmapootra 

 Valley has increased fully 20 percent, 

 The first flush teas from tlie 



DARJEELING. DISTRICT • 



though not so attractive as the previous 

 year were nevertheless of a useful description, 

 Later in the iseason quality was very irregular, 

 for while some gardens sent forward teas fully 



