₹5.7 lakh–₹8.5 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
After typical costs: ₹3.5 lakh–₹6.4 lakh an acre a year
- Not known: No rain data
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
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Water
Needs about 1,540 mm of water here in its growing months.
Temperature
Grows best at 23–33 °C on average, and survives 12–42 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 36 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 35 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 25 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 22 °C
- Jan 30 °C / 21 °C
- Feb 32 °C / 22 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 24 °C
- Apr 36 °C / 26 °C
- May 38 °C / 28 °C
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
Soil
Likes pH 5.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 162 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹4,375 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹5,875 a quintal, the middle of 8 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹7.4 lakh a year after typical costs.
- ₹4,100 2024
- ₹5,000 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
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.