Hooghly district is best known for GI-tagged sweets and handlooms: Chandannagar's liquid-hearted Jalbhara Sandesh, Janai's Manohara, Kamarpukur's Sada Bonde, and the GI-tagged Dhaniakhali and Begampuri cotton sarees, plus the 500-year-old wooden dingi boats of Balagarh. The villages of Aniya-Gangpur ('Rabri Gram') have supplied Kolkata with thickened sweetened milk for generations, and jute is the district's signature agricultural product. Together these form a buyer-ready mix of sweets, textiles, boats and jute goods sold in the towns of Chandannagar, Serampore and Chinsurah.
