Snug against Bangladesh with a gateway to the Bay of Bengal, Tripura is quietly building an export engine on two agri pillars: tea and rubber. If you are a trader, processor, or logistics player looking East, here’s the lay of the land—what’s working, what’s changing, and where the opportunities lie.

Why Tripura?

Border Advantage:
Tripura trades officially with Bangladesh through multiple land customs stations—Agartala, Srimantapur, and Sabroom. This gives exporters short and cost-effective routes into a 170-million-strong market, and via Bangladesh’s ports, access to the wider world.

Tea and Rubber

Sea Access Within Reach:
The Maitri Setu bridge at Sabroom links directly into Bangladesh’s network towards Chittagong—Tripura’s shortest path to a seaport. While operationalization has faced fits and starts due to political turbulence, the corridor’s strategic logic remains rock-solid for outbound cargo.

Tea: Small State, Sharper Play

Tripura is a century-old tea state, today running on a hybrid model of estates and thousands of small growers. Official data pegs the ecosystem at 54 estates and thousands of smallholders, with an annual made-tea output of 9–10 million kg, putting Tripura among India’s top six producers by volume. The State Corporation itself operates five gardens and two factories.

Climate variability and labor shortages have pinched leaf availability, forcing some gardens to rethink crop mixes and mechanization. But once the Sabroom–Chattogram route is fully operational, exporters will gain a shorter, all-weather route to key global buyers in West Asia.

Tripura has also launched its first tea auction centre, aiming to give local producers a price discovery venue and a distinct identity—reducing dependence on Assam’s auction dynamics.

Natural Rubber

After Kerala, Tripura is the second-largest producer of natural rubber in India, with an annual output of nearly 100,000 MT. Over 100,000 growers are engaged, supported by a dense network of group processing centers converting raw produce into latex sheets, blocks, and latex concentrates.

The state’s benchmark rubber price was around ₹18,850 per 100 kg, offering a competitive base for processors and exporters alike.

Tripura’s mix of strategic geography, established agri industries, and improving trade infrastructure makes it a state to watch. For investors, traders, and logistics players, the tea and rubber story here is just beginning to scale.