Ripon > wrote:

> Sri Lanka produce a lot of CTC teas.

As I just wrote, about 6 per cent of the Ceylon tea production
is of the CTC type. Meaning that 94 per cent is "orthodox".

> In domestic market CTC tea is the most popular one because
local people like strong, robust cup.

It's not that simple. A lot of the "orthodox" tea (namely that
processed with the Rotorvane machine) is made into small
particles which gives a strong, robust tea with comparably less
flavour. But this is not CTC tea.

> Actually BOP is not a orthodox grade, this grading system is
for CTC tea-
BOP(Broken Orange Pekoe).

This is wrong. BOP (Broken Orange Pekoe) has been used as a
grade in orthodox manucfacturing for a very long time, even
though it is nowadays also used for CTC teas. In Sri Lanka a BOP
tea is usually "orthodox" Rotorvane-processed. However, due to
market demand the BOP teas from Sri Lanka/Ceylon nowadays
consist of much smaller particles than before, making them
difficult to distinguish from BOPF (Fannings) and even Dust.

Jon (Oslo, Norway)