[8] According to chief minister Yogi Adityanath Uttar Pradesh, GSDP might hit 32 lakh crore by March 2025.

[10] Major food grains produced in the state include rice, wheat, maize, millet (bajra), gram, pea and lentils.

Cities like Noida, Meerut, Kanpur Nagar, Agra, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Prayagraj and Ghaziabad are leading economic centres in the state.

In FY 2020–21, the state produced 5.81 crores (58.10 million) tonnes of food grain, 18.68% of the country's total production.

This is partly due to the fertile regions of the Indo-Gangetic plain and also the well-developed irrigation facilities such as canals and tube wells.

It has been the foremost producer of food grains in India since the 1950s, due to high-yielding varieties of seed, greater availability of fertilisers, and increased use of irrigation.

Cottage industries, such as handloom and handicrafts, have traditionally provided livelihood to a large number of people in the state.

Other than these mills some steel furniture and cement products small scale industries are there in town located at different places.

[citation needed] Meerut, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Kanpur, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, and Balrampur are the most industrious areas in the state.

The Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus service is one of the largest in the country with more than 10,000 buses.

In 2015, the state government started another expressway project between Agra to Lucknow that has reduced the journey time; it was inaugurated on 21 November 2016.

[citation needed] India's first inter city metro, Delhi Meerut RRTS is also partially operational.

[citation needed] Uttar Pradesh is also set to get operational Eastern and Western dedicated freight corridors.

[39] Just an hour's drive from Agra, on the banks of the river Yamuna, is situated the birthplace of Lord Krishna, Mathura.

Gokul is the hideout where Lord Krishna was secretly brought up- away from the eyes of his maternal uncle Kansa.

[40] Varanasi, in eastern Uttar Pradesh is among the oldest living cities in the world and its antiquity finds place in ancient scriptures.

[42] Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, famed for its Nawabi era finesse and amazing food, is a unique mix of the ancient and the modern.

[43] Kushinagar is one of the principal centres of the Buddhist pilgrimage, is the place where Lord Buddha left his corporal self and attained Mahaparinirvana.

[44] Located on the east bank of River Saryu in central Uttar Pradesh, Ayodhya is brimming with the remnants of a bygone era.

Many eminent kings such as Ikshvaku, Prithu, Mandhata, Harishchandra, Sagar, Bhagirath, Raghu, Dileep, Dashrath and Lord Rama ruled the capital city of Kosala.

An episode of Ramayana, a page of ancient history and a cluster of tourist attractions, this town has been a major centre for pilgrims, historians, archaeologists and students alike.

[46] According to NITI Aayog's Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) based on NFHS-5, 22.93% population of Uttar Pradesh is poor.