Bottle Gourd

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 370 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,460 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,150 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):

• Jun 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 31 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 50 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October 2026): about ₹4,100 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹1,560 a quintal, the middle of 308 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹38,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹41,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.