State · 2024-25 Final Estimates
Papaya in Tamil Nadu
188'000 tonnes · production, 2024-25#9 of 28 states
What the figures show
Tamil Nadu is the 9th-largest papaya producer in India, at 188 '000 tonnes in 2024-25, against 1.26 million tonnes in Andhra Pradesh. That is 3.3% of India's papaya output in 2024-25. Output has risen 1580.8% since 2019-20, from 11.2 '000 tonnes to 188 '000 tonnes. The high was 222 '000 tonnes in 2021-22; 2024-25 is 15.5% below it. Yield here runs 69.4 tonnes per hectare against a national 37.5 — 85% above average. Its share of national output has moved from 0.2% in 2019-20 to 3.3% — gaining ground.
Production, 2019-20 to 2024-25
'000 tonnes| Year | Production | Area | Share of India |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 11.2 | 2.11 | 0.2% |
| 2020-21 | 13.6 | 2.62 | 0.2% |
| 2021-22 | 222 | 3.24 | 4.2% |
| 2022-23 | 218 | 3.19 | 4.2% |
| 2023-24 | 194 | 2.84 | 3.7% |
| 2024-25 | 188 | 2.7 | 3.3% |
Provenance receipt
TIER A · FINAL ESTIMATES
Source 1 of 2 · fruits-by-state-2019-20-to-2024-25
- Originator
- Horticulture Statistics Division, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
- Release
- Area and Production of Horticulture Crops — Final Estimates, one release per year
- Accessed
- 2026-09-14
- Workbook (2024-25)
- sha256 f65e5fdcbf9f176c…
Source 2 of 2 · horticulture-all-india-2024-25-final
- Originator
- Horticulture Statistics Division, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
- Release
- 2024-25 (Final Estimates): Area and Production of Horticulture Crops
- Accessed
- 2026-08-15
- Estimate round
- Final Estimates
- Trust
- Primary source, final round — quotable as our figure without qualification.
What is wrong with this data (13)
- The workbooks carry no publisher line of their own; attribution rests on the download page in source.url.
- 'Others' rows are unallocated residuals, not places; they carry kind = 'residual'.
- Columns named TOTAL… or OTHER… are aggregates of the columns beside them, not crops. They are kept for the additivity check and carry kind != 'crop': ['OTHER FRUITS', 'TOTAL CITRUS', 'TOTAL FRUITS'].
- Union Territories ARE included, from each workbook's separate UT sheet, and carry kind = 'ut'.
- State naming drifts between releases (Chhatisgarh/Chhattisgarh, Arunchal/Arunachal Pradesh). Normalise via the region registry before joining years — do not join on the raw string.
- A crop absent in one year's sheet is simply absent — it is not a zero.
- Potato is included. It was previously excluded so it could live only in indianpotato-web; that rule was reversed on 2026-09-14.
- The workbook carries no publisher line of its own; attribution rests on the download page in source.url.
- 'Others' rows are unallocated residuals, not places. Never name one as a state.
- No crop is excluded; potato is included (the indianpotato-web carve-out was reversed on 2026-09-14).
- Crop names are the workbook's, with the '(i)' style bullet inside the Citrus block stripped; the sub-group is carried in `subgroup` instead.
- Category and sub-group totals ARE included, but carry kind = 'aggregate' and must be excluded before summing — they would double-count. Only kind = 'crop' rows are crops.
- Two categories are corrected against the sheet's own layout: it prints an 'Aromatics and Medicinal' header with no crops under it before the flower rows, and gives Honey no header. Flowers Cut/Loose are labelled Flowers, and Honey is labelled Honey.
Cite the originator and the estimate round, not IndianAgri alone — these are Government of India statistics, compiled here. Original release.