Puducherry: food, farms and farsan.
Puducherry is known for Paddy covers most irrigated crop area; Franco-Tamil Creole cooking, such as vadouvan seasoning. It grows paddy, sugarcane, banana, coconut and groundnut.

What is Puducherry known for?
- Paddy covers most irrigated crop area
- Franco-Tamil Creole cooking, such as vadouvan seasoning
- Karaikal fishing harbour cluster
What grows in Puducherry?
- Paddy
- Sugarcane
- Banana
- Coconut
- Groundnut
- Black gram
- Tapioca
- Vegetables
How is food processed in Puducherry?
- Fish landing and handling (Karaikal)
What farsan and sweets is Puducherry known for?
- VadouvanSun-dried onion, garlic and spice seasoning (Tamil vadagam)
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What does Puducherry export?
Dry fish (Karaikal)
Karaikal catch about 12,500 t a year; no export value published
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?
Sources
Other states and union territories
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andhra Pradesh
- 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
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- West Bengal