Barley

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 560 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year (370 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 10 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–20 °C on average, and survives 2–40 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 17 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 7 °C / -3 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 15 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• May 25 °C / 12 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Barley: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.5–8.5.

Money

Yield: about 2.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 87% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 87% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (June–July 2026): about ₹2,261 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹2,776 a quintal, the middle of 25 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹12,000 a season at typical costs.

Minimum support price: ₹2,286 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹18,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.