Overview

• West Bengal’s farmers produced 256.53 lakh metric tonnes of paddy in the 2024–25 financial year, the highest output in state history.
• The record was achieved despite the impact of Cyclone Dana and widespread flooding across several districts.
• Policies such as Krishak Bandhu, Bangla Shasya Bima, khajna waiver, mechanisation support, Sufal Bangla and assured procurement underpinned the surge in paddy yields.
• Since 2011, the state has seen multi-fold productivity gains in maize, pulses, oilseeds and aromatic rice under successive government initiatives.
• The Trinamool Congress highlighted over 100,000 farmer suicides between 2014 and 2022 under the BJP-led central government to underscore national agrarian distress.