Orange Festival in Tripura

inside Tripura, an important festival celebrated around North Tripura and remains unique celebration of northern regions of Tripura. It is celebrated every year on Jampui Hills. Ranges stretching from North to South with an average altitude of 1000 m. is a place belonging to Mizo Community.

Festival’s Significance –

The celebration at Jampui Hills is to rejoice the bounty of nature and to show the people’s thankfulness for the gifts that Earth is presenting them. This is a celebration where people of Tripura forget all the dark times, enjoys and sings the Almighty’s grace for whatever positive and good happened.

Nowhere in India can one get a dazzling colorful experience with oranges in such artistic and creative designs to portray the creed and culture of our nation.

When the festival begins?

Orange festival starts in the month of November when the Jampui ranges looks orange in color with overwhelming oranges growing there during harvest season. The trek experience in Jampui hills covers the gorges and parishes throughout the valley, making a wonderful lifetime experience.

History of Orange Festival

Orange plantation started in Jampui hills in the early 60s, however it was mostly for self-consumption until the community realized the value of marketing the fruits throughout the country. They started orange plantations on more lands, on the valleys of the Jampui hill tracts.

The commercial value for the Jampui oranges changed the economy and lifestyle of the population. The oranges won first position for best fruit on a competition held at New Delhi in the 1980s. With this recognition, tourists from different parts of India as well as abroad started visiting these hills and hence, economy from tourism increased exponentially.