Brinjal

A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Nov–Dec.

Check it on your land
Season
Kharif
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Sowing Growing Harvest

56% of its area. Also grown in rabi, summer.
Ready in
150 days
about 5 months
Grows best at
20–35 °C
0 °C survives 9–40 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Kharif 56% of its area
Rabi 44% of its area
Summer
Today: kharif harvest
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

Kheda Gujarat
Water
Season

Possible in Kheda, with effort

Brinjal

JJASONDJFMAM

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 6 mandis in your district.

₹1.8 lakh–₹2.7 lakh

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹97,000–₹1.9 lakh an acre a season

  • Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain falls about 3 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 530 mm it can use in a normal year, and 400 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 / 27 °C
  • Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
  • Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
  • Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
  • Oct 36 °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.

Likes pH 5.5–6.8.

How the soil score works

Money

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 82% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 82% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹3,400 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹1,000 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 7 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹18,000 a season at typical costs.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹1,080 2021
  2. ₹1,380 2022
  3. ₹1,360 2023
  4. ₹1,250 2024
  5. ₹1,400 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

  • 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.

Fertiliser for one acre here

Urea
85 kg
DAP
53 kg
MOP
40 kg

Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra.

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What it needs

Temperature

20–35 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 9–40 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.3 to 8.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
  • N Needs plenty of nitrogen and potassium
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra

For most fields

Urea nitrogen
85 kg about 2 bags of 45 kg
DAP phosphate
53 kg about 1 bag of 50 kg
MOP potash
40 kg about ¾ of a 50 kg bag

Hybrids often get more

Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.

Watch out for

Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra
  • Shoot and fruit borer
    Pest

    Look for

    Shoot tips wilt; holes in the fruit with caterpillars inside.

    What to do first

    Every week, cut and destroy wilted shoots and holed fruit; use pheromone traps. Spray only on advice.

  • Little leaf
    Disease

    Look for

    Tiny leaves on a bushy plant that doesn't fruit.

    What to do first

    Pull out sick plants and control leafhoppers.

  • Bacterial wilt
    Disease

    Look for

    Plants wilt suddenly while still green.

    What to do first

    Rotate crops; grafted plants on resistant rootstock help.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a season

₹97,300

Yield India's average
77.6 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Dec 2025)
₹2,300 a quintal
= Income
₹1,78,400
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys
−₹81,100
= Left
₹97,300

This week brinjal sells at about ₹2,350 a quintal: India's middle price at 611 mandis, latest 13 Nov. At that price an acre would leave about ₹1,01,200 a season.

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,42,700 to ₹2,14,100 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
August, ₹2,500 a quintal
Lowest
April, ₹1,800 a quintal
₹1,800
₹2,500
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Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Kheda Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
17.1 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
77.6 quintals an acre (19.2 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
West Bengal
24% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.