fibre · 2025-26 Final Estimates
Cotton in Indiaकपास
290lakh bales (170 kg) · all-India production, 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
lessmore▨ not reported
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
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.
Beyond the figures — our cotton guide covers varieties, cultivation, economics and the latest coverage.
Provenance receipt
TIER A · 3RD ADVANCE ESTIMATES
- 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
- 3rd Advance Estimates
- Trust
- Primary source, final round — quotable as our figure without qualification.
What is wrong with this data (6)
- 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.