Bottle Gourd

Water

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

Needs about 500 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 180 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 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 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 58 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 ₹1,450 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹1,400 a quintal, the middle of 30 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in July.

Typical costs are about ₹47,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.