Bottle Gourd

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 530 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 19–27 °C on average, and survives 12–38 °C.

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

• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 17 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Bottle Gourd: 9 out of 10 (good).

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 66 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹3,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹2,850 a quintal, the middle of 8 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.3 lakh a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹55,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.