Andhra Pradesh: food, farms and farsan.
Andhra Pradesh is known for About half of India's chilli output (2023–24); Guntur sannam chilli (GI 2010). It grows chilli, rice, mango, banana and turmeric.

What is Andhra Pradesh known for?
- About half of India's chilli output (2023–24)
- Guntur sannam chilli (GI 2010)
- Banganapalle mango (GI 2017)
- Main shrimp aquaculture state, about 31% of shrimp exports
What grows in Andhra Pradesh?
- Chilli
- Rice
- Mango
- Banana
- Turmeric
- Oil palm
- Papaya
- Shrimp (aquaculture)
How is food processed in Andhra Pradesh?
- Chilli cleaning, grading, grinding and cold storage (Guntur)
- Shrimp processing for export
- Mango pulp processing (Chittoor)
What farsan and sweets is Andhra Pradesh known for?
- Atreyapuram pootharekuluPaper-thin rice-starch sheets rolled with jaggery or sugarGI 2023
- MurukuluSpiral rice and urad dal flour snack
- ChekkaluFlat crisp rice-flour crackers, often with lentils
Looking for a product like these, made for your market? Make and Source are the doors for it.
What does Andhra Pradesh export?
Shrimp and seafood
About 32% of India's seafood shipments (2023-24); about 82% of India's farmed shrimp
SourceChilli
India USD 1,342.52 million (715,506 t) in 2024-25; AP 32–40% of production
SourceMango pulp
India 63,253 t, USD 80.34 million in FY25 (Chittoor a main hub)
Source
India publishes few export figures by state of origin. Where a figure is national, a port total or a single shipment, it says so.
Where is it grown, processed and shipped?
Guntur
Asia's largest chilli market yard; Guntur Sannam chilli GI; spice park Source
Visakhapatnam
Top seafood export port (50.87% of marine exports, 2024-25) Source
Bhimavaram, West Godavari
Farmed shrimp (aqua ODOP); Godavari mega aqua food park in district Source
Chittoor
Totapuri mango pulp cluster; operational mega food park Source
Machilipatnam, Krishna
Bandar laddu (GI 2017) Source
Atreyapuram, Konaseema
Atreyapuram pootharekulu rice-paper sweet (GI 2023) Source
Banaganapalle, Nandyal
Banaganapalle mangoes (GI 2017) Source
Araku Valley, Alluri Sitharama Raju
Araku Valley Arabica coffee (GI 2018-19) Source
Sources
Other states and union territories
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chandigarh
- Chhattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- Delhi
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Puducherry
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- West Bengal