Brinjal
Sow in June, harvest around November
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹1.6 lakh–₹2.4 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹81,000–₹1.6 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 560 mm it can use in a normal year, and 500 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 9–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 35 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 73 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹2,700 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,300 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹91,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹2,200 2022
- ₹1,700 2023
- ₹2,500 2024
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹76,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.