Bottle Gourd

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 350 mm it can use in a normal year, and 240 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, manganese and boron.

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 75 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 77% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 77% of this yield.

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹2,900 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹1,750 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹40,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹61,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.