Masco Tea - an Organic Tea manufactured from the beautiful landscape of Vagamon, a small Picturesque town in the mountains of Kerala in South India. The MALANAD SERVICE CO-OPERATIVE BANK LTD, which was established in 1970, , under took a prestige project, a Tea Processing Unit- with an aim to save the poor member farmers to get an adequate price for the green tea leaves. In 1995, they started to produce tea leaves. But, there were several hurdles waiting for them and after facing severe setbacks, the bank authorities decided to set up a tea factory by itself. On 02.11.2000, the society started the new venture, Tea Processing Unit at Vagamon and for thousands of farmers, this was a ray of hope and a dream come true.

The cultivation and brewing of tea in India has a long history of applications in traditional systems of medicine and for consumption. Research shows that tea is indigenous to eastern and northern India, and was cultivated and consumed there for thousands of years. However, commercial production of tea in India had not begun until the arrival of the British East India Company, at which point large tracts of land were converted for mass tea production.

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 the Yandaboo Treaty.