North Eastern Tea Association about current issues as they arise pertaining to Assam's tea industry, besides making various suggestions to the government for the betterment and the upscaling of the industry sector. The organization has made numerous suggestions to the Government of Assam for the upscaling the tea industry in the region. NETA has recently suggested to move the Tea Board of India's head office to Guwahati on the basis of the fact that the other five statutory "Commodity Boards" under the Department of Commerce, Govt. of India – Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Spices and Tobacco are headquartered in the State where the product is
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