Jute

A monsoon crop. Sow in Mar–May, harvest in Jul–Sep.

Check it on your land
Season
Kharif
JJASONDJFMAM

Sowing Growing Harvest

100% of its area.
Ready in
120 days
about 4 months
Water
460–480 mm
of water over its season (rain plus irrigation)
Grows best at
20–37 °C
0 °C survives 13–45 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Kharif 100% of its area
Today
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

Jalpaiguri West Bengal
Water
Season

Possible in Jalpaiguri, with effort

Jute

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in May, harvest around September

This season's sowing time (March–May) is over.

Grown on 60,158 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.

₹1.1 lakh–₹1.7 lakh

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹71,000–₹1.3 lakh an acre a season

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,960 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,700 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–37 °C on average, and survives 13–45 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

  • May 33 °C / 24 °C
  • Jun 32 °C / 26 °C
  • Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
  • Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
  • Sep 32 °C / 25 °C

Soil

Soil for Jute: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur.

  • Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
  • Most fields here are short of phosphorus.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 11 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹12,950 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹14,250 a quintal, the middle of 10 mandis in your state (latest 11 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.1 lakh a season after typical costs.

Minimum support price: ₹5,925 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹6,600 2021
  2. ₹6,050 2022
  3. ₹5,200 2023
  4. ₹4,960 2024
  5. ₹6,380 2025

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹40,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.

How to make it work

The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 7.7 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.

  • Short of phosphorus Your soil is likely short of phosphorus.

    Add about a quarter more DAP or single super phosphate than the usual dose, at sowing.

    About 24% of local fields of this crop get it.

What local farmers put on it (share of fields):

  • Urea 77%
  • Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) 24%
  • Zinc Sulphate Heptahydrate / Monohydrate 14%
  • Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 4%
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What it needs

Temperature

20–37 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 13–45 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

460–480 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Murshidabad Nadia North 24 Parganas Cooch Behar Uttar Dinajpur

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 5 to 8.6.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
  • K Needs plenty of potassium and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a season

₹94,600

Yield India's average
11.0 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Jul–Sep 2026)
₹12,300 a quintal
= Income
₹1,34,700
− Costs seed, fertiliser, labour and machines, as the government costs them
−₹40,100
= Left
₹94,600

This week jute sells at about ₹14,250 a quintal: India's middle price at 10 mandis, latest 11 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹1,16,000 a season.

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,07,800 to ₹1,61,600 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
June, ₹14,600 a quintal
Lowest
December, ₹8,900 a quintal
₹14,600
₹8,900
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Government minimum support price (MSP): ₹5,925 a quintal for 2026-27. Every crop's MSP

Latest prices near Jalpaiguri Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
13.3 lakh acres
2024-25
Average yield
11.0 quintals an acre (2.7 tonnes a hectare)
recent years, to 2024-25
Most area
Murshidabad
West Bengal
Best yield
South 24 Parganas
20 quintals an acre

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

77% of India's jute area is in these 10 districts

  1. 1 Murshidabad West Bengal 22% 3.3 lakh acres
  2. 2 Nadia West Bengal 16% 2.3 lakh acres
  3. 3 North 24 Parganas West Bengal 9.3% 1.4 lakh acres
  4. 4 Cooch Behar West Bengal 8.4% 1.3 lakh acres
  5. 5 Uttar Dinajpur West Bengal 5.1% 76,842 acres
  6. 6 Malda West Bengal 4.4% 66,273 acres
  7. 7 Jalpaiguri West Bengal 4.0% 60,158 acres
  8. 8 Dakshin Dinajpur West Bengal 3.3% 49,883 acres
  9. 9 Kishanganj Bihar 2.4% 35,984 acres
  10. 10 Katihar Bihar 2.3% 34,206 acres

Jute yield, quintals an acre (average of 2020-21 to 2024-25 in most districts)

  1. 0.0–5.9
  2. 6.0–7.7
  3. 7.8–9.3
  4. 9.6–11
  5. 12–20
No data

1 Numbers match the list: the districts with the most area.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2020-21 to 2024-25.

Where yields are highest

Districts growing it on at least 100 ha, against the average across India. The line runs from India's average to each district.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2020-21 to 2024-25.

Across India over the years

Yield across India, quintals an acre

7 q 8 q 9 q 10 q 11 q 12 q
1998-99 2024-25
Latest 11 quintals an acre in 2024-25

Area sown across India, acres

13 lakh 15 lakh 18 lakh 20 lakh 23 lakh
1998-99 2024-25
Latest 13.3 lakh acres in 2024-25

Years run July to June. Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 1998-99 to 2024-25.

Soil and yield

How district soil tests line up with this crop's yields across India.

Jute yields tend to be higher in districts with

  • More soil high in phosphorus moderate 64 districts
  • More soil high in potassium weak 63 districts

Jute yields tend to be lower in districts with

  • More soil short of copper moderate 65 districts
  • More soil low in phosphorus weak 64 districts

A pattern is not proof that soil causes the difference.

Source: Soil Health Card – soil nutrient analysis (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).