Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Cool in November
- 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 1,310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 690 mm it can use in a normal year, and 580 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 23–33 °C on average, and survives 12–42 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 29 °C / 22 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 30 °C / 17 °C
- May 30 °C / 19 °C
- Jun 29 °C / 22 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 5.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 56 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
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 through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹4,750 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹5,250 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹3,750 2023
- ₹4,250 2024
- ₹4,750 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹2.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.