Consider the following statements: Assertion (A): Assam grows maximum tea in India. Reason (R): A lot of cheap tribal labour is available. Select the code for the correct answer from the options given below :

The correct answer is A is true, R is false . The tea industry in Assam is about 172 years old. It occupies an important place and plays a very useful part of the national economy. Important Points Assam has the largest concentration of plantations in the world . Thus, it grows maximum tea in India. Thus, Assertion A is correct . From the very beginning of tea plantation in Assam, the planters have faced great difficulties in securing the necessary labour force . The experiment with immigrant Chinese labour in the early days proved a complete failure due to the high cost of requirement and maintenance and to the difficulties in their management. Local labourers were not available in sufficient number . It thus became necessary to bring labourers from other parts of India in large number to cope up with the expansion of the tea plantations in Assam. As a result of continuous inflow of immigrant labourers, there are now large number of tea garden labourers in the tea producing regions of the State. Thus, Reason is false .