Ajwain

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year (60 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 16–24 °C on average, and survives 10–30 °C.

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

• Oct 28 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 26 °C / 14 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Ajwain: 10 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 4.3 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹11,104 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹26,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.