Tea culture Assam tea is known for its robust taste and dark colour, and Nilgiri tea is dark, intensely aromatic and flavoured. Assam produces the largest quantity of Tea in India, mostly of the CTC variety, and is one of the biggest suppliers of major international brands such as Lipton and Tetley. The Tetley Brand, formerly British owned and one of the largest, is now owned by the Indian Tata Tea Limited company. On April 21, 2012 the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission (India), Montek Singh Ahluwalia, said that tea would be declared as national drink by April 2013. Speaking on the
Tea growing in Azerbaijan main directions of state policy in the field of tea growing consist of stimulation of investing activities and cooperation, expansion leasing and agro-services, improvement of quality and increase in export of tea products, protection of the domestic market, and also improvement of social security and preserving ecological equilibrium in regions where tea is grown up. The law approved by the former President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev (December 17, 2002) aims to ensure recovery and development of tea growing in the country by tea production incentive, creation of economic and legal guarantee for delivery to the consumer market of the competitive,