State · 2025-26 Final Estimates
Mesta in West Bengal
1.04lakh bales (180 kg) · production, 2025-26#1 of 5 states
What the figures show
West Bengal is the largest mesta producer in India, at 1.04 lakh bales (180 kg) in 2025-26 — 1.0× the next state, West Bengal. That is 45.8% of India's mesta output in 2025-26. Output has fallen 39.2% since 2021-22, from 1.71 lakh bales (180 kg) to 1.04 lakh bales (180 kg). The high was 1.72 lakh bales (180 kg) in 2022-23; 2025-26 is 39.5% below it. Yield here runs 13.0 tonnes per hectare against a national 9.9 — 32% above average. Its share of national output has moved from 44.2% in 2021-22 to 45.8% — gaining ground.
Production, 2021-22 — 2025-26
lakh bales (180 kg)| Year | Production | Area | Share of India |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 1.71 | 1.3 | 44.2% |
| 2022-23 | 1.72 | 1.3 | 42.7% |
| 2023-24 | 1.62 | 1.2 | 36.7% |
| 2024-25 | 1.55 | 1.2 | 49.5% |
| 2025-26 | 1.04 | 0.8 | 45.8% |
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.