West Bengal: food, farms and farsan.

What farsan and sweets is West Bengal known for?

• Joynagar moaPopped kanakchur rice balls bound with nolen gurGI 2015
• Kamarpukur sada bondeFried white wheat-flour drops coated in sugarGI 2025
• Bishnupur motichur ladduFine gram-flour pearls with sugar and ghee, shaped roundGI 2025
• Jhalmuri mixPuffed rice with mustard oil, spices and chanachur

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What does West Bengal export?

• Tea

  West Bengal produced 411.18 million kg in 2025 (about 30% of India); India exported 257.88 million kg in FY 2024–25 (no state split found)

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• Rice

  First in India, 171.36 lakh tonnes produced in 2025–26 (production, not exports)

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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?

• Darjeeling

  Darjeeling tea, India's first GI (2004); 5.30 million kg produced in 2025 Source

• Siliguri, Darjeeling

  Tea auction centre for CTC tea (opened 1976) Source

• Kolkata

  Tea auction centre handling most orthodox and Darjeeling tea Source

• English Bazar (Malda), Malda

  GI mangoes: Fazli, Laxman Bhog, Khirsapati (Himsagar) (2008–09) Source

• Bardhaman, Purba Bardhaman

  GI sweets sitabhog and mihidana (2016–17) Source

• Joynagar, South 24 Parganas

  Joynagar moa, puffed-rice and nolen gur sweet (GI 2014–15) Source

• Jangipur, Murshidabad

  Mega food park (inaugurated 2016); Murshidabad chhanabora GI sweet (2025) Source

• Bishnupur, Bankura

  Bishnupur motichur laddoo GI sweet (2025) Source

Sources

• GI Registry, Darjeeling tea
• APEDA, West Bengal GI list
• GI Registry, Kamarpukur sada bode
• Down To Earth, Jaynagar nolen gur
• IBEF, West Bengal
• ODOP product list (May 2023)