Bottle Gourd

A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Oct–Nov.

Check it on your land
Season
Kharif
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Sowing Growing Harvest

Also grown in summer.
Ready in
110 days
about 3½ months
Grows best at
19–27 °C
0 °C survives 12–38 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Kharif
Summer
Today: kharif harvest
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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?

Jamui Bihar
Water
Season
We don't judge Bottle Gourd for that season. Pick another season.

What it needs

Temperature

19–27 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 12–38 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

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

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 7.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
  • N Needs plenty of nitrogen and potassium
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.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a season

₹45,600

Yield India's average
65.9 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price this season so far (Oct–Nov 2026)
₹1,500 a quintal
= Income
₹98,800
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys
−₹53,200
= Left
₹45,600

This week bottle gourd sells at about ₹1,560 a quintal: India's middle price at 308 mandis, latest 13 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹49,500 a season.

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹79,000 to ₹1,18,500 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
December, ₹1,850 a quintal
Lowest
May, ₹1,100 a quintal
₹1,100
₹1,850
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Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Jamui Today's price across India

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

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
6.4 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
65.9 quintals an acre (16.3 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Madhya Pradesh
20% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

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.