However, as time passed, especially after the New Economic Policy was implemented in East Africa, the East African beverage market had, over the past few years, truly entered a glorious age where a hundred schools of thought contended and a hundred flowers bloomed.
As a typical light industry, beverage production and research involved little technical difficulty. This allowed at least ten thousand beverage brands to appear on the East African market in just a few short years after the New Economic Policy. With little investment needed, any small family beverage workshop could gain a foothold in society as long as its products tasted decent.
Of course, this could easily create many problems. With insufficient oversight, the quality of products from many small workshops and factories was bound to be questionable. Yet this was clearly beyond the East African government's ability to address at present.
So many new things had suddenly sprung up in the market under the New Economic Policy that the East African government could not possibly inspect them one by one.
Of course, compared with Europe and America, the problems lurking behind the prosperity of East Africa's beverage market were merely a small sorcerer before a great one, so the East African government was in no hurry to launch sweeping reforms.
Returning to the East Africa World Expo, many tea varieties from the Far East Empire had won the praise of East African citizens. Quite a few people placed orders on the spot, while the favored tea merchants smiled until their faces stiffened.
Many Far East tea merchants were also visiting East Africa for the first time, so they knew little of this enormous emerging tea market with its strong purchasing power.
The East Africa World Expo provided them with precisely such a channel, allowing them to better