History of tea in India be the "norm", with China tea a minority taste. Until the 1970s and the rise of instant coffee, Indian tea had almost sole command of the hot drinks market. Its rivals were cocoa, coffee and savoury drinks such as Bovril and Oxo. In the early 1820s, the British East India Company began large-scale production of tea in Assam, India, of a tea variety traditionally brewed by the Singpho people. In 1826, the British East India Company took over the region from the Ahom kings through the Yandaboo Treaty. In 1837, the first English tea garden was established at Chabua in
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,