Indian tea culture thriving in Assam, when a native from the province present, seeing some tea said, 'We have the plant growing wild in our jungles.'" It is then documented that the Assamese nobleman, Maniram Dutta Barua, (also known as Maniram Dewan) showed British surveyors existing fields used for tea cultivation and wild tea plants growing in the Assamese jungle. In the early 1820s, the British East India Company began large-scale production of tea in Assam, India, of a tea variety traditionally brewed by the Singpho tribe. In 1826, the British East India Company took over the region from the Ahom kings through
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