State · 2025-26 Final Estimates
Jowar (Sorghum) in Rajasthan
3.06lakh tonnes · production, 2025-26#6 of 17 states
What the figures show
Rajasthan is the 11th-largest jowar (sorghum) producer in India, at 3.06 lakh tonnes in 2025-26, against 1.61 million tonnes in Maharashtra. That is 7.0% of India's jowar (sorghum) output in 2025-26. Output has fallen 42.9% since 2021-22, from 5.36 lakh tonnes to 3.06 lakh tonnes. The high was 5.67 lakh tonnes in 2022-23; 2025-26 is 46.0% below it. Yield here runs 0.6 tonnes per hectare against a national 1.2 — 50% below average. Its share of national output has moved from 12.9% in 2021-22 to 7.0% — losing ground.
Production, 2021-22 — 2025-26
lakh tonnes| Year | Production | Area | Share of India |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 5.36 | 6.2 | 12.9% |
| 2022-23 | 5.67 | 6.37 | 14.9% |
| 2023-24 | 4.51 | 5.09 | 9.5% |
| 2024-25 | 5.2 | 6.42 | 10.5% |
| 2025-26 | 3.06 | 4.98 | 7.0% |
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.