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 4 mandis in your district.
₹2.6 lakh–₹3.9 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.7 lakh–₹3.0 lakh an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 640 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 560 mm it can use in a normal year, and 360 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 38 °C / 28 °C
- Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 33 °C / 16 °C
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of iron.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 81 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹4,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹1,200 a quintal, the middle of 19 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹1,250 2021
- ₹1,750 2022
- ₹1,880 2023
- ₹1,380 2024
- ₹1,500 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹85,000 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.
About 66% of local fields of this crop get it.
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Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.
Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 66%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 57%
- Urea 57%
- Calcium Ammonium Nitrate 43%