Assam India. Business Export Dispur Guwahati Tezpur Assamese

Assam is an agricultural State. The principal food crop is rice. The cash crops are jute, tea, cotton, oilseeds, sugarcane, potato, etc. Noteworthy horticulture items are orange, banana, pineapple, arecanut, coconut, guava, mango, jackfruit and citrus fruits. Assam is known for her rich forest wealth which constituted 22.21 per cent of the total forest area.

Of agriculture-based industries, tea occupies an important place. There are six industrial growth Centres in the State. A Central Institute for plastic  Engineering Technology (CIPET) has been established at Amingaon near Guwahati. Assam has always enjoyed the highest reputation for her arts and crafts associated with her cottage industries. Cottage industries include handloom, sericulture, cane and bamboo articles, carpentry, brass and bell-metal crafts. Assam produces varieties of silk, Endi, Muga, Tassar, etc. Muga silk is produced only in Assam in the world.

The major power stations are Chandrapur Thermal Project, Namrup Thermal Project and a few Mobile Gas Turbine Units along with a mini hydro-electric Project.

Roads: The total length of roads in the State was 34,000 km which includes 2,038 km of National Highways.

Railways:The length of railway tract in Assam is 2,391.76 km comprising 1,061.29 km under broad-gauge and 1,330.47 km under meter-gauge lines.

Aviation :The regular civil air services are operating from Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport (Guwahati), Salonibari (Tezpur), Mohanbari (Dibrugarh), Kumbhirgram (Silchar), Rawriah (Jorhat) and Silonibari (North Lakhimpur).

Districts (जिले)
Barpeta Bongaigaon Cachar Darrang Dhemaji Dhubri  Goalpara Golaghat Hailakandi  Kamrup Karbi_Anglong Karimganj Kokrajhar  Marigaon Nagaon Nalbari North_Cachar_Hills Sonitpur Tinsukia

Tourism
Important places of tourism in and around Guwahati are Kamakhya Temple, Umananda, Navagraha (Temple of nine planets), Basistha Ashram, Dolgobinda, Gandhi Mandap, State Zoo, State Museum, Sukreswar Temple, Gita Mandir, Madan Kamdev Temple, a magnificent archaeological place of interest, and Saraighat bridge.

Other places of tourist interest in the State are: Kaziranga National Park (famous for one horned rhino), Manas Tiger Project , Pobi-tora and Orang (wildlife sanctuaries), Hajo (meeting point of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam (इस्लाम)), Batadrava (birth place of great Vaishnava saint Sankaradeva) and Sualkuchi (famous for silk industry (उद्योग)).

The State has five National Parks and eleven wildlife sanctuaries. The Kaziranga National Park and the Manas Tiger Project (परियोजना) (National Park) are internationally famous for one horned Rhino and Royal Bengal Tiger respectively.

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Source: India Gov.