fibre · 2025-26 Final Estimates
Mesta in Indiaमेस्ता
2.27lakh bales (180 kg) · all-India production, 2025-26
Per acre:7.22quintal/acre(converted — 1,784 kg/ha, 2025-26)
What the figures show
2 of 12 reporting states account for three-quarters of India's mesta output — led by West Bengal, West Bengal. National output has fallen 41.3% since 2021-22, from 3.87 lakh bales (180 kg) to 2.27 lakh bales (180 kg).
Where Mesta grows
Ranked states
share of national- 01West Bengal1.0445.8%
- 02Bihar0.626.4%
- 03Assam0.135.7%
- 04Odisha0.135.7%
- 05Chhattisgarh00.0%
All-India, 2021-22 to 2025-26
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.
Cite this page
Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. Mesta production in India, 2025-26 (3rd Advance Estimates). Compiled by IndianAgri. Accessed 15 September 2026. https://indianagri.com/data/crop/mesta
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