History of tea Sanjeevani plant is in fact a different plant and is not related to tea. The Singpho tribe and the Khamti tribe also validate that they have been consuming tea since the 12th century. However, commercial production of tea in India did not begin until the arrival of the British East India Company, at which point large tracts of land were converted for mass tea production. The Chinese variety is used for Sikkim, Darjeeling tea, and the Assamese variety, clonal to the native to Assam, everywhere else. The British started commercial tea plantations in India and in Ceylon: "In 1824 tea
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