State · 2024-25 Final Estimates
Tobacco in West Bengal
2.6'000 tonnes · production, 2024-25#6 of 15 states
What the figures show
West Bengal is the 11th-largest tobacco producer in India, at 2.6 '000 tonnes in 2024-25, against 4.69 lakh tonnes in Gujarat. That is 2.5% of India's tobacco output in 2024-25. Output has risen 52.9% since 2021-22, from 1.7 '000 tonnes to 2.6 '000 tonnes.
Production, 2021-22 — 2024-25
'000 tonnes| Year | Production | Area | Share of India |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 2.1% |
| 2022-23 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 3.0% |
| 2023-24 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 2.8% |
| 2024-25 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 2.5% |
Provenance receipt
TIER A · FINAL 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
- Final 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.