Assam: food, farms and farsan.

What farsan and sweets is Assam known for?

• Til pithaRice-flour roll filled with sesame and jaggery
• Narikol laruGrated coconut and sugar toasted into balls
• Muri laruPuffed rice bound with jaggery syrup
• Ghila pithaDeep-fried bora rice and jaggery cake
• ChiraFlattened rice, eaten as jolpan with jaggery

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What does Assam export?

• Tea

  Assam produced 687.76 million kg in 2025, almost half of India's output; North India exported 161.20 million kg in FY 2024–25

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• Joha rice

  25 t to the UK and Italy, March 2026; earlier 1 t to Vietnam and 2 t to five Gulf countries

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• Assam lemon

  1,200 kg to London, July 2021; 40–50+ t cumulative to UK and Middle East (sources differ)

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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?

• Guwahati, Kamrup Metropolitan

  Tea auction centre (mainly CTC); airport for lemon and chilli exports; Joha rice packed here for 2026 UK and Italy export Source

• Tezpur, Sonitpur

  Tezpur litchi (GI 2014–15) Source

• Diphu, Karbi Anglong

  Karbi Anglong ginger, Nadia and Awa varieties (GI 2014–15) Source

• Nalbari

  North East mega food park (operational); Boka chaul soak-to-eat rice grown in Nalbari, Barpeta and Darrang Source

• Kajalgaon, Chirang

  Assam lemon (Kaji nemu type) source district for 2021 UK export Source

• Kokrajhar

  Bodoland region: Bodo GI fermented foods (napham, narzi) and rice beers (2024) Source

Sources

• APEDA, Assam GI list
• Assam government, district products
• Sentinel Assam, Tea Board production data 2024
• EastMojo, Bihu pitha, laru and jolpan