How much tea does India produce?

plantation · 2024-25 Final Estimates

Tea in Indiaचाय

1.32million tonnes · all-India production, 2024-25

Where Tea grows

The source publishes national and district figures for tea, but no state totals. We do not add the districts up to make one: coverage is uneven — some states publish no district breakdown for some crop-seasons — so a map built that way would be quietly wrong.

Every district, in the API

All-India, 2017-18 to 2024-25

Productionin '000 tonnes

Exports from India

US$ million

Year	Value
2025-26	$898.82 mn
2024-25	$832.13 mn
2023-24	$743.05 mn
2022-23	$740.4 mn
2021-22	$684.86 mn
2020-21	$700.41 mn
2019-20	$769.41 mn
2018-19	$777.18 mn

Provenance receipt

TIER A · FINAL ESTIMATES

Source 1 of 2 · agri-exports-2018-19-to-2025-26

Originator: Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India
Release: TRADESTAT — System on India's Export Import Data Bank (EIDB), commodity-wise exports
Accessed: 2026-09-16

Source 2 of 2 · tea-production-2017-18-to-2024-25

Originator: Tea Board India, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India
Release: Production (Region Wise) — Final
Accessed: 2026-09-15

Estimate round: Final Estimates
Trust: Primary source, final round — quotable as our figure without qualification.

What is wrong with this data (11)

VALUE IN MILLIONS OF US DOLLARS. The portal will also return rupee crore and quantity, but at 4-digit level its Unit column is BLANK — an HS heading can mix units and DGCI&S does not state one — so quantity is not carried. A figure with no unit cannot be published here.
FOUR-DIGIT HS HEADINGS, one per crop, taken as published. Going deeper would mean summing sub-headings, and a total we computed is a different kind of number from one DGCI&S published.
Onion is NOT carried: heading 0703 is 'onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables', which is not onion.
Coffee (0901) and natural rubber (4001) are not carried: the Atlas has no production series for either, and a crop page holding trade data alone cannot render.
Spices are not carried here. They come from the Spices Board report, which is the same DGCI&S data; taking both would put two facts against one dimension tuple.
Portal vintage: Data available 2017-2018 to 2025-2026. Last data updated on 07/08/2026. Figures for the most recent year are the ones most likely to be revised.
The portal flags some headings with an asterisk, meaning the ITC HS code was dropped or re-allocated and its unit may change from April 2026. This affects comparability across that boundary.
PRODUCTION IS IN THOUSAND TONNES. The Board reports in million kilograms, which is the same quantity — a million kilograms is a thousand tonnes — so the figure is stored unconverted.
FINANCIAL YEARS. The report also carries a calendar-year series with different figures for what a reader would read as the same year. Only the financial-year series is carried; the calendar one is in the source document.
NATIONAL ONLY. The report splits North India and South India, neither of which is a state or union territory. The All-India figure used here is the one the Board publishes, never north plus south — though the ingest asserts the two agree.
Tea is absent from both the horticulture release and the DES foodgrain release, so this Board is the only source for it.

Cite the originator and the estimate round, not IndianAgri alone — these are Government of India statistics, compiled here. Original release.

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Tea Board India, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. Tea production in India, 2024-25 (Final Estimates). Compiled by IndianAgri. Accessed 15 September 2026. https://indianagri.com/data/crop/tea

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