Beetroot

A winter crop. Sow in Oct–Nov, harvest in Dec–Jan.

Check it on your land
Season
Rabi
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Sowing Growing Harvest

Ready in
70 days
about 2½ months
Grows best at
15–25 °C
0 °C survives 4–35 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Rabi
Today: rabi sowing time
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Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

South East Delhi
Water
Season

Won't work: too dry without irrigation

Beetroot

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Sow in November, harvest around January

Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.

Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on

  • Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 160 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 0 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–25 °C on average, and survives 4–35 °C.

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

  • Nov 28 °C / 13 °C
  • Dec 23 °C / 9 °C
  • Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

No yield records for this crop yet.

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 (January–February 2026): about ₹1,938 a quintal across India's mandis.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹1,680 2021
  2. ₹2,310 2022
  3. ₹2,000 2023
  4. ₹2,190 2024
  5. ₹2,450 2025

Prices are usually best in September.

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What it needs

Temperature

15–25 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 4–35 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 5.5 to 7.5.

Soil

  • Takes a little salt
  • Needs rich soil
  • N Needs plenty of nitrogen, potassium and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
September, ₹3,700 a quintal
Lowest
February, ₹1,800 a quintal
₹1,800
₹3,700
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Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near South East Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.