Bitter Gourd

Water

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

Needs about 490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 130 mm it can use in a normal year, and 90 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 22–30 °C on average, and survives 15–38 °C.

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

• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Bitter Gourd: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 39 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹3,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹2,625 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹64,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.