Tea it is sometimes served with biscuits to be dipped in the tea and eaten before consuming the tea. More often than not, it is drunk in "doses" of small cups (referred to as "Cutting" chai if sold at street tea vendors) rather than one large cup. On 21 April 2012, the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission (India), Montek Singh Ahluwalia, said tea would be declared as national drink by April 2013. The move is expected to boost the tea industry in the country. Speaking on the occasion, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said a special package for the tea industry
Tea growing in Azerbaijan tea leaves (mainly black) was produced in Azerbaijan. In 1983, tea-growing in Azerbaijan spread to 9.3 thousand hectares area. However, with the collapse of the USSR, the tea production in Azerbaijan began to deteriorate. Moreover, in the 1990s, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict had an extremely adverse impact on tea production — the volume of tea production dropped to 1,200 tons by 1995. With the development of market relations in Azerbaijan, tea production began to revive, including through joint relations with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The tea produced in the country is mostly green, but black tea is also quite common