In 1834 the British set up a committee to plan the introduction of tea growing into their Indian colonies, and sent people to China to study tea growing and processing techniques and to buy tea seeds and saplings. They also hired tea masters and workers from areas such as Wuyi. Five years later the first consignment of Assam tea was auctioned in London.
一八三四年英國開始在印度殖民地成立植茶研究發展委員會，派員至中國學習茶葉產製技術，購買茶籽茶苗，也由武夷等地羅致茶師及工人種茶，五年後第一批阿薩姆茶在倫敦拍賣。