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 your state.
₹30,000–₹45,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹11,000 to a profit of ₹4,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in december
- Suits: Soil 8/10
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 270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 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 22 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 14 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 12 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
Nights in November can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.
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 worksMoney
Yield: about 42 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 83% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 83% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹1,075 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹850 2021
- ₹930 2022
- ₹950 2023
- ₹1,200 2024
- ₹910 2025
Prices are usually best in April.
Typical costs are about ₹41,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), 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.