Tanganda Tea Tanganda Tea Tanganda Tea is the biggest grower and producer of tea and coffee in Zimbabwe and one of the biggest tea producers in Africa. It is a competing food corporation in Zimbabwe, and forms part of the Meikles Group, a major Zimbabwean company which also owns hotels and department stores in southern Africa. Tanganda is based in Mutare (formerly Umtali) in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). The first tea bushes planted in Zimbabwe originated from a box of seeds smuggled out of India in 1924 by Mrs Florence Phillips, a tea-planter’s wife from Assam, and were planted
Tea growing in Azerbaijan Tea growing in Azerbaijan In Azerbaijan, Lenkeran-Astara region is mainly specialized in tea-growing in the area of approximately 5.33 thousand square km. including the districts of Astara, Lenkeran, Masalli, Lerik, Yardimli, and Jalilabad. The first time, the idea of growing tea in the humid regions of Caspian Sea sector in Azerbaijan was suggested in the 1880s and 1890s. In that time Lenkeran-Astara region attracted attention due to favorable climatic conditions for tea-growing. At the end of the 19th century, M. O. Novoselov (Russian expert) planted the first experimental of tea bushes in the Lankaran region. In 1896, for the first