Ajwain

Water

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

Needs about 340 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 140 mm it can use in a normal year (120 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 27 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 23 °C / 13 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

No soil score here: the soil tests don't say enough about nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium.

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.