Ajwain

Water

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

Needs about 490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 560 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 29 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 29 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 30 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: organic carbon, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

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.