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. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Doesn't suit: Too cold here in this season
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 150 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 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 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 22 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
Nights in October can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
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).
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 last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹2,688 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,300 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,760 2021
- ₹2,240 2022
- ₹2,080 2023
- ₹2,500 2024
- ₹2,380 2025
Prices are usually best in March.
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.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.