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 1,240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 700 mm it can use in a normal year, and 610 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 28 °C / 21 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- May 29 °C / 19 °C
- Jun 28 °C / 21 °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 61 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 across mandis in your state.
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.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 98%
- Urea 98%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 97%
- Calcium Ammonium Nitrate 2%