Uttar Pradesh: food, farms and farsan.

What farsan and sweets is Uttar Pradesh known for?

• Agra pethaAsh gourd candied in sugar syrup
• DalmothFried spiced lentil and gram-flour mix, Agra
• Revdi and gajakSesame and jaggery or sugar brittle, Meerut
• Mathura pedaBrowned khoya and sugar disc
• Banarasi tirangi barfiThree-layer milk barfi from Varanasi

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What does Uttar Pradesh export?

• Fresh fruit and vegetables (air, Varanasi)

  1,032 t in 2024-25, 1,010 t in 2025-26 (APEDA), to the Gulf, Europe, Bangladesh and Nepal

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• GI jaggery

  30 t from Shamli and Muzaffarnagar to Bangladesh, 30 Jan 2025

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• Kalanamak rice

  About 15,000 t produced in 2021, about 7% exported

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• Basmati rice

  US$0.05 bn in 2021-22, against India's US$3.5 bn

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• Buffalo meat, rice, cereal preparations, wheat, dairy

  Top UP export commodities; key markets South Africa, USA, Australia, Canada; UP is the largest exporter of processed frozen meat in India

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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?

• Muzaffarnagar

  GI jaggery (Muzaffarnagar gur, 2022-23); India's largest jaggery market; jaggery ODOP Source

• Malihabad, Lucknow

  GI Dusseheri mango (2009-10); Lucknow mango ODOP Source

• Agra

  Petha (ash-gourd candy) ODOP Source

• Varanasi

  GI lal peda, tirangi barfi, thandai, langda mango, lal bharwamirch; 1,032 t of fresh produce exported by air in 2024-25 Source

• Siddharthnagar

  Kalanamak rice (GI 2013-14) ODOP Source

• Pratapgarh

  GI Pratapgarh aonla (2022-23); aonla ODOP for murabba, candy and juice Source

• Hathras

  GI Hathras hing (asafoetida, 2022-23); asafoetida ODOP Source

• Baheri, Bareilly

  Mega food park, 247.60 acres, about 40 km from Bareilly Source

Sources

• APEDA, UP GI products
• PIB GI explainer (August 2026)
• MoFPI/PIB ODOP list by district (Dec 2023)
• Agra district, one district one cuisine
• UNI, UP one district one cuisine
• Business Today, UP sugar and sugarcane (July 2026)