Ajwain
Sow in October, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Very hot in March
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 600 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 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 33 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 31 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
- Jan 31 °C / 15 °C
- Feb 34 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 37 °C / 22 °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: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and manganese.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.5–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 7.0 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
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 ₹8,845 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹43,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.