Ajwain

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 600 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 140 mm it can use in a normal year, and 60 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

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

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

• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 30 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 32 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 34 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 36 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in March get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.5–8.0.

Money

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

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

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.