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West Bengal is a treasure house of many significant agricultural
and horticultural products. Keeping this in view and realising
the enormous investment potential of the fruits and vegetables
processing industry in the state, the State Government has set
up five Agri Export Zones across the state for its key products:
Pineapple, Lychee, Mango, Potato and Vegetables. These zones are
West Bengal’s latest venture for mutually rewarding business
relationships.
What does an Agri-Export Zone offer?
• These zones by identifying the potential products and the
geographical region in which they are grown, adopt an end-to-end
approach of integrating the complete process right from the
stage of production, then processing, packaging and finally
leading to export.
• These zones add value to basic agricultural produce by
improving the product quality, and packaging is another area
that comes under the purview of these zones.
Five Agri-Export Zones of the state Geographic Coverage
Pineapple Agri Export Zone:
The geographic coverage of this AEZ is Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Coochbehar and North Dinajpur. The tarai belt of West Bengal is
well suited for Pineapple production in terms of soil quality
and climatic conditions. Hence this belt has been identified as
the AEZ for Pineapple.
Lychee Agri Export Zone:
The geographic coverage of this AEZ is Malda, Murshidabad, North
& South 24-Parganas. This zone is well suited for Lychee
cultivation in terms of soil quality and agro-climatic
conditions. Planting of ‘’
 Successful Varieties’’ of Lychee from
other countries can produce very good results.
Potato Agri Export Zone:
The geographic coverage of this AEZ is Howrah, Hooghly, Burdwan
and Midnapore (West).
Mango Agri Export Zone:
The geographic coverage of this AEZ is Malda and Murshidabad
districts.
Vegetables Agri Export Zone:
The geographic coverage of this AEZ is North 24 Parganas, Nadia
and Murshidabad districts.
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