Jharkhand: food, farms and farsan.

What farsan and sweets is Jharkhand known for?

• ThekuaFried wheat-flour and jaggery biscuit with a long shelf life
• Deoghar khoya pedaDry sweet of reduced milk, sugar and cardamom

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What does Jharkhand export?

• Amrapali mango

  1.5 tonnes to the UK, first commercial consignment (June 2026)

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• Amrapali mango

  2 tonnes to Dubai (3 July 2026)

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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?

• Ranchi

  Guava ODOP; mega food park at Getalsud (inaugurated 2016, non-functional by 2019) Source

• Khunti

  Tamarind ODOP; Ranchi-Khunti showed the biggest rise in lac output (Jharkhand has about 55% of India's lac) Source

• Simdega

  Amrapali mango, first commercial consignment to the UK (June 2026); mango ODOP Source

• Gumla

  Amrapali mango exported to Dubai (July 2026); green chilli ODOP Source

• Jhumri Telaiya, Koderma

  Kesaria kalakand, saffron milk sweet (GI announced June 2026) Source

• Deoghar

  Peda ODOP; mango sourced for Dubai export (2026) Source

• Hazaribagh

  Jaggery ODOP Source

• Lohardaga

  Honey ODOP Source

Sources

• Mongabay India, Jharkhand lac (February 2025)
• GI Registry, Kesharia kalakand of Koderma
• All India Radio, 11 Jharkhand GI tags (June 2026)
• Jharkhand agriculture department presentation (2018)
• Deoghar district, local sweets
• ODOP product list (May 2023)