Muhuripur was the third village to be studied as part of the Tripura Round 2016 of the Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI). The FAS team conducted a sample survey of the village from June 18 through 29, 2016.

Muhuripur village is in Muhuripur tehsil, Julaibari block, South district. The village is 18 km from the district headquarters at Belonia , with which the village is connected by an all-weather road.

There are 1054 households resident in the village, which has a population of 4016 (the data are from an Ordinary Resident Register household survey conducted in 2015-16). The village has 12 hamlets (para) that are spread over 536 hectares.

Muhuripur is a lowland village, characterised mainly by the cultivation of rice and a wide variety vegetables and tubers, including winter potato. Mulberry cultivation and sericulture are part of the contemporary village economy. There is also a sector of rubber cultivation on hillocks or sloping land (tila).