Humma Salt Pans

Humma Salt Pans are extensive salt production fields located at Humma village in Ganjam district, Odisha, near the southern shore of Chilika Lake and close to Rambha. Spread across flat coastal lowlands, the pans are among Odisha's major centres for solar salt manufacturing. The site is notable for its vast white salt beds, earthen bunds and brine channels, offering visitors a view of traditional salt-making and the coastal landscape of southern Odisha.

Visitors can expect vast, flat expanses of white crystallized salt beds divided by low earthen bunds and shallow brine channels. The landscape is open and coastal, with workers engaged in solar evaporation and salt harvesting during the dry season. There are no formal structures or ticketed enclosures; viewing is from bunds and peripheral roads. The area offers wide open views, photography opportunities of geometric salt patterns, and proximity to Chilika Lake wetlands.

Humma is one of the traditional salt-producing centres of coastal Odisha, where solar salt production using seawater and brine evaporation has been practiced for decades. The pans form part of Ganjam district's coastal salt belt that contributes significantly to Odisha's salt output and reflects the region's long-standing coastal livelihood based on salt manufacturing.

The salt pans support the livelihood of local communities in Humma and surrounding villages in Ganjam district. The seasonal salt-making activity represents a traditional coastal occupation and rural industrial culture of southern Odisha, closely linked to the Chilika Lake coastal ecosystem.