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fibre · 2025-26 Final Estimates

Mesta in Indiaमेस्ता

2.27lakh bales (180 kg) · all-India production, 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

LA
JK
HP
PB
HR
UT
RJ
DL
UP
SK
AR
GJ
MP
BR1AS0
NL
DD
DH
MH
CT
JH
WB1
ML
MN
GA
TG
OD0
TR
MZ
KA
AP
LD
KL
TN
PY
AN
lessmore▨ not reported
Production, 2025-26. Each square is one state or union territory — equal squares, so a small state is as visible as a large one.

Ranked states

share of national
  1. 01West Bengal1.0445.8%
  2. 02Bihar0.626.4%
  3. 03Assam0.135.7%
  4. 04Odisha0.135.7%
  5. 05Chhattisgarh00.0%

All-India, 2021-22 to 2025-26

2.02.73.34.04.72021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26
Productionin lakh bales (180 kg)

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.

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