Ajwain

Water

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

Needs about 380 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 150 mm it can use in a normal year (90 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):

• Nov 23 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 23 °C / 13 °C
• Apr 25 °C / 16 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• 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).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–May 2026): about ₹11,370 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹27,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.