Where was the first tea plantation started in India?

The correct answer is Brahmaputra valley of Assam Key Points ​Tea Tea is a plantation crop used as a beverage. Black tea leaves are fermented whereas green tea leaves are unfermented. Tea leaves have rich content of caffeine and tannin. It is an indigenous crop of hills in northern China. It is grown over the undulating topography of hilly areas and well-drained soils in humid and sub-humid tropics and sub-tropics. In India, tea plantations started in the 1840s in the Brahmaputra valley of Assam which still is a major tea growing area in the country. Hence the correct answer is option 2 Later on, its plantation was introduced in the sub-Himalayan region of West Bengal (Darjiling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Bihar districts).