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Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 1 mandi in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Doesn't suit: Winters are too warm for it to fruit
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,210 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 630 mm it can use in a normal year, and 490 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 14–27 °C on average, and survives 8–33 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
- Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 23 °C / 11 °C
- Mar 29 °C / 15 °C
- Apr 35 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- May 39 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 13 °C.
Days in June get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.
Soil
Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 38 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
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 (August–October 2026): about ₹16,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹7,400 a quintal, the middle of 205 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹12,000 2023
- ₹7,500 2024
- ₹8,500 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹1.4 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.