Tripura

Cane & Bamboo Handicrafts of Tripura are among the best in the country for their exquisite designs, wide range of products and artistic appeal

60% of the requirement of the entire country for bamboo sticks for Agarbatti-making is met from Tripura.

In order to facilitate setting up of bamboo-based industries in the State, a Bamboo Park has been set up at Bodhjungnagar. The Value Addition Centre is the pioneer unit having treatment facility for Bamboo and is also equipped with range of furniture making machines & tools.

Tourism based on wildlife, forest and Hindu/Buddhist religious places have good potential in the State. Eco-tourism programmes are under active consideration of the State Government

Efforts are being made to attract tourists to scenic places of the State having ecological importance. Tourism infrastructure is being created under Swadesh Darshan Scheme. 

Tripura is blessed with its scenic beauty, historic palaces, rock-cut carvings, stone sculptures, museums, breath-taking verdant hills, Buddhist and Hindu holy places and bio-diversity treasure troves in the form of wildlife sanctuaries. Tripura’s pollution free, eco friendly environment, pleasant climate and its cross-cultural ethnic diversity, rich tradition of handicrafts and handloom are tempting enough to draw the attention of the tourist.

Information Technology (IT) is one of the critical sectors that ride on cyberspace. Ensuring a safe cyberspace is of paramount importance to Government of Tripura

Tripura is considered one of the best IT destinations in the North East. The Software Technology Parks (STP) present in the state will help promote the IT/ITeS industries in the State and create employment avenues for the IT educated youth within the State. The government is incentivizing the IT/ITeS promotional schemes for promoting Software Technology Parks within the State.

The agro-climatic conditions are favourable for growing various fruit and horticultural crops

The state presents outstanding opportunities in food processing including developing mills for Flour, Cashew Processing, lodised Salt, etc. 4 projects under the new scheme of Kisan Sampada for the Modern Rice Mill, Dal Mill, Oil Mill, Cattle & poultry feed plant have been sanctioned by the government.

In order to give a further boost to setting up of food processing industries, a modern Food Park has been set up at Bodhjungnagar. Sikaria Mega Food Park has been set up (under MoFPI) at Tulakona Industrial Area with 1500 MT cold storage, warehouse, quality control laboratory, sorting, grading & packaging unit, bottle manufacturing unit, and a test house.

The suitable land and climate conditions offer good potential for development of tea industry in the State

There are 54-Tea Estates, 23 Tea Processing Factories, and more than 2500 small tea growers in the state producing over 80 Mn kg of tea every year. This makes Tripura the 5^th largest state among the 16 tea-producing States, after Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu & Kerala. The tea plantation activities have a special socio-economic significance in the rehabilitation of shifting cultivators, i.e., jhum cultivation done by the tribals of the State.