cereal · 2025-26 Final Estimates
Jowar (Sorghum) in Indiaज्वार
4.36million tonnes · all-India production, 2025-26
Per acre:4.97quintal/acre(converted — 1,228 kg/ha, 2025-26)
What the figures show
3 of 47 reporting states account for three-quarters of India's jowar (sorghum) output — led by Maharashtra, Maharashtra, Karnataka. National output has risen 139.9% since 2015-16, from 1.82 million tonnes to 4.36 million tonnes.
Where Jowar (Sorghum) grows
Ranked states
share of national- 01Maharashtra1.6137.1%
- 02Karnataka6.6415.2%
- 03Uttar Pradesh5.2212.0%
- 04Andhra Pradesh4.289.8%
- 05Telangana4.129.5%
- 06Rajasthan3.067.0%
- 07Tamil Nadu2.375.4%
- 08Madhya Pradesh1.022.3%
- 09Gujarat4.91.1%
- 10Haryana10.2%
All-India, 2015-16 to 2025-26
Support price
₹ / quintal · marketing season- Jowar (Maldandi)Minimum Support Price₹3,7492025-26+328
- Jowar (Hybrid)Minimum Support Price₹3,6992025-26+328
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
Provenance receipt
TIER A · 3RD ADVANCE ESTIMATES
Source 1 of 2 · foodgrains-all-india-2015-16-to-2024-25
- Originator
- Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
- Release
- Final Estimate of Production of Food Grains for 2024-25
- Accessed
- 2026-09-15
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
- 3rd Advance Estimates
- Trust
- Primary source, final round — quotable as our figure without qualification.
What is wrong with this data (13)
- Units differ from the horticulture store: AREA IS 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.
- Columns named Cereals, Nutri/Coarse Cereals, Shree Anna /Nutri Cereals, Small Millets, Other Pulses, Total Food Grains and Total Pulses are AGGREGATES of other rows, not crops. They would double-count if summed.
- A figure absent in the source is absent, not zero. The source writes '@' and '$' for not-available and those are read as null.
- This release covers FOODGRAINS only — cereals and pulses. No oilseeds, cotton or sugarcane.
- These are the NATIONAL figures and are the only correct denominator for a district's or state's share of India.
- Cotton, jute and mesta are EXCLUDED from this file. The source reports them in lakh bales (cotton 170 kg/bale, jute and mesta 180 kg/bale) while every other figure here is lakh tonnes, and one file declares one unit. They need their own dataset.
- '@' and '$' in the source mean 'included in Rabi' and 'included in Kharif' respectively — the season split is not separately published, though the crop total is.
- 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.
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Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. Jowar (Sorghum) production in India, 2025-26 (3rd Advance Estimates). Compiled by IndianAgri. Accessed 15 September 2026. https://indianagri.com/data/crop/jowar
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