Brinjal
Sow in October, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹35,000–₹52,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹8,000–₹25,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Needs care: Cool in November
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 350 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 100 mm it can use in a normal year (40 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 9–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 26 °C / 17 °C
- Nov 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 18 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 27 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 86% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 86% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹1,850 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹1,450 2021
- ₹1,640 2022
- ₹1,510 2023
- ₹1,910 2024
- ₹1,750 2025
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹27,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.