History of tea war on China was one of Britain's tactics, it also began to explore, then executed, a plan to use India for growing tea. After tea plants were smuggled out of China, plantations were established in areas such as Darjeeling, Assam, and Ceylon. As an attempt to circumvent its dependence on Chinese tea, the East India Company sent Scottish botanist Robert Fortune to China to purchase and bring out of China tea plants, which were then taken to India, although it was the discovery of native varieties of tea plant in India which proved more important for the development of production
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,