Farrukhabad - Economy

Economy

Agriculture

Farrukhabad is one of the most fertile regions in India. It is one of the biggest producers of potatoes and a significantly good producer of wheat, watermelon, Pulses, vegetables and oil seeds and sugar cane. The Ganges plays an important role in irrigation system of district, tube wells are also main contributor with monsoon. Most of the regions in district are capable of producing three crops per year and all with very high acreage yield. Kaimganj Tehsil is a major producer of tobacco, guavas and mangoes.Most of the agricultural products are either transported to the nearby states or exported outside the country.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is quite good for the city. City has a mall and high class hotels like Hindustan, Surya Hotel, Rajputana Hotel, Vinayasha Hotel, and BS Mension. Leading brands like Godown, Canary London, Koutons, Priknit,Peter England,Graceful creations kirana bazar, Cotton County, Outlaw and Action shoes have opened their outlets in the city.

Banks like - Axis, state bank, HDFC, ICICI, PNB, etc. are also there. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital is government hospital.Singh nursing home is the most advanced Pediatric and Neonatal hospital of the town with NICU and PICU facilities catering to patients of this district and neighbouring district. Mission Hospital and City Hosspital are leading private and Good hospitals with very Good Doctors.

Industries

Farrukhabad is a biggest producer of potatoes in the state and supplies it to all over India. Farrukhabad has a large number of cold stores. As Potato is the biggest agricultural product of the district.

Hand-embroidery work (here called as Zardozi work) is also a large industry, which employs thousands of workers.Zardozi from Farrukhabad is well recoganised by traders in wholesale saree & Lehenga market of Chandani Chowk of Delhi.

Earlier Calico-printing of Farrukhabad was supplied to all over India and also some abroad countries. Block Printing of Farrukhabad was very famous. The Calico printing industry used to produce Printed Tapestries, Lihaaf (a traditional Duvet without the filling) which were supplied to all over northern part of India during winters, they also used to print cotton sari or Saree on large scale.With the invent of ready made Duvets or Quilts and synthetic cloth sari this business went else where. Also, but due to the city is separated from the highways and also from the good conveyance so now-a-days printing business came down to a few printing industry. Farrukhabad has a large number of Printing and Dyeing Cloth work Export. Printed Tapestries from Farrukhabad are still famous in the world.

Recently Textile ministry of India in collaboration with state government has established a Textile Park. City is famous for textile printing and over the last 200 years has been a source of income of local craftsmen. More than 250 textile entrepreneurs have shown interest in the project.This textile Park will help bringing the district into the national map. Apart from revenue it will create enough job opportunities for the local youth.

Being an agriculture oriented economy, lots of food processing units have been set up by the local businessmen. City has lots of cold stores, transportation, logistics and food catering companies. Many Beedi, Paan masala and Gutkha manufacturers have their units in the outskirts of the city. Namkeen is one more commodity for which city is known for. Namkeen is exported to nearby cities and states from the city.

Here, Beetle-nut (Supari) is also processed to make sweet supari and is a famous product of Farrukhabad.