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.
₹92,000–₹1.4 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1,000–₹47,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 4 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 650 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 390 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 41 °C / 29 °C
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 13 °C
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 7 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: phosphorus.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
- Most fields here are short of zinc.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 86 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 74% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 74% of this yield.
Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (November 2026): about ₹1,800 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹900 a quintal, the middle of 48 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹33,000 a season at typical costs.
- ₹1,100 2023
- ₹1,480 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
Typical costs are about ₹90,000 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.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.