Tea prices in Bangladesh rose for a third straight week at the weekly auction on Tuesday as fresh leaf arrived at the beginning of the new marketing season, brokers said.
Tea prices dropped sharply in the last marketing season on tepid demand from local buyers because of the damage to business 
sentiment caused by the renewed political unrest early this year that left more than 120 people dead and disrupted supplies.
Bangladeshi tea fetched an average 212.84 taka ($2.6) per kg at the auction on Tuesday, the third of the new marketing season, compared with 210.88 taka at the previous sale, he said.
More than 1 million kg was offered at the sole auction centre in Chittagong, of which nearly 3 percent remained unsold. In the previous auction, about 3 percent of 845,000 kg was unsold.
Following are the results of the latest auction. Figures are in Bangladesh taka per kg.
BROKENS Bold/Large Brokens 207-215 Medium Brokens 207-212 Small Brokens 195-200 Plain Brokens 160-170 FANNINGS Best Fannings 208-215 Good Fannings 203-206 Medium Fannings 197-202 Plain Fannings 175-185 DUST Pekoe Dust not quoted Red Dust 195-247 Dust 200-252 Churamoni Dust 220-281.
-ET
