fibre · 2025-26 Final Estimates
Cotton in Indiaकपास
290lakh bales (170 kg) · all-India production, 2025-26
Per acre:1.73quintal/acre(converted — 428 kg/ha, 2025-26)
What the figures show
3 of 32 reporting states account for three-quarters of India's cotton output — led by Maharashtra, Maharashtra, Gujarat. National output has fallen 6.7% since 2021-22, from 311 lakh bales (170 kg) to 290 lakh bales (170 kg).
Where Cotton grows
Ranked states
share of national- 01Maharashtra77.626.7%
- 02Gujarat67.923.4%
- 03Telangana55.519.1%
- 04Karnataka21.27.3%
- 05Rajasthan175.9%
- 06Andhra Pradesh16.15.6%
- 07Madhya Pradesh11.64.0%
- 08Haryana8.83.0%
- 09Odisha8.733.0%
- 10Punjab3.351.2%
All-India, 2021-22 to 2025-26
Exports from India
US$ million| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025-26 | $436.37 mn |
| 2024-25 | $660.4 mn |
| 2023-24 | $972.17 mn |
| 2022-23 | $678.75 mn |
| 2021-22 | $2,659.26 mn |
| 2020-21 | $1,779.59 mn |
| 2019-20 | $1,001.35 mn |
| 2018-19 | $2,002.58 mn |
Support price
₹ / quintal · marketing season- Cotton (Long Staple)Minimum Support Price₹8,1102025-26+589
- Cotton (Medium Staple)Minimum Support Price₹7,7102025-26
The year is the marketing season — KMS for a kharif crop, RMS for a rabi one. That is the season the price is announced for and procured against. MSP for every crop
Beyond the figures — our cotton guide covers varieties, cultivation, economics and the latest coverage.
Provenance receipt
TIER A · FINAL ESTIMATES · 3RD ADVANCE ESTIMATES
Source 1 of 2 · agri-exports-2018-19-to-2025-26
- Originator
- Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India
- Release
- TRADESTAT — System on India's Export Import Data Bank (EIDB), commodity-wise exports
- Accessed
- 2026-09-16
Source 2 of 2 · statewise-apy-2021-22-to-2025-26
- Originator
- Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
- Release
- Crop Profile: State-wise Area, Production & Yield of All Crops
- Accessed
- 2026-09-15
- Estimate round
- Final Estimates · 3rd Advance Estimates
- Trust
- Primary source, final round — quotable as our figure without qualification.
What is wrong with this data (13)
- VALUE IN MILLIONS OF US DOLLARS. The portal will also return rupee crore and quantity, but at 4-digit level its Unit column is BLANK — an HS heading can mix units and DGCI&S does not state one — so quantity is not carried. A figure with no unit cannot be published here.
- FOUR-DIGIT HS HEADINGS, one per crop, taken as published. Going deeper would mean summing sub-headings, and a total we computed is a different kind of number from one DGCI&S published.
- Onion is NOT carried: heading 0703 is 'onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables', which is not onion.
- Coffee (0901) and natural rubber (4001) are not carried: the Atlas has no production series for either, and a crop page holding trade data alone cannot render.
- Spices are not carried here. They come from the Spices Board report, which is the same DGCI&S data; taking both would put two facts against one dimension tuple.
- Portal vintage: Data available 2017-2018 to 2025-2026. Last data updated on 07/08/2026. Figures for the most recent year are the ones most likely to be revised.
- The portal flags some headings with an asterisk, meaning the ITC HS code was dropped or re-allocated and its unit may change from April 2026. This affects comparability across that boundary.
- UNITS ARE LAKH, NOT '000, and differ from the horticulture store: area in lakh hectares, production in lakh tonnes, yield in kg per hectare. The measure keys name their unit so a mix-up cannot pass silently.
- FIBRE PRODUCTION IS IN BALES, and a bale is not one weight: cotton 170 kg, jute/mesta/sannhemp 180 kg. They share the source's single 'Production' column; the measure key carries the weight so the two can never be summed together or read as tonnes.
- 2025-26 is the 3rd Advance Estimate, not Final. It is recorded per period and must never be quoted as a settled figure.
- Rows named Cereals, Jute & Mesta, Nutri/Coarse Cereals, Other Pulses, Shree Anna /Nutri Cereals, Small Millets, Total Food Grains, Total Oil Seeds, Total Pulses are AGGREGATES of other rows, not crops. They would double-count if summed.
- 'Others' here is the remainder the release has not broken out — the COMPLEMENT of the named states, not a duplicate of them. It never appears beside a named union territory, and including it reconciles 88 of 89 crop-seasons to the all-India figure. It is still never printed as a place.
- A figure absent in the source is absent, not zero: the export writes an empty cell for missing and a literal 0.00 for a real zero, and the two are never conflated.
Cite the originator and the estimate round, not IndianAgri alone — these are Government of India statistics, compiled here. Original release.
Cite this page
Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. Cotton production in India, 2025-26 (3rd Advance Estimates). Compiled by IndianAgri. Accessed 15 September 2026. https://indianagri.com/data/crop/cotton
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