Ajwain

Water

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

Needs about 550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 0 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 30 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 7 °C
• Jan 22 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 9 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 39 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in December can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.

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

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 6.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 3.8 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 (April–May 2026): about ₹13,249 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in July.

Typical costs are about ₹24,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.