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. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹1.8 lakh–₹2.7 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹62,000–₹1.5 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 740 mm it can use in a normal year, and 600 mm in a dry year.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 9–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 26 °C / 19 °C
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
- Aug 24 °C / 19 °C
- Sep 25 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 111 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹2,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,141 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.2 lakh a season after typical costs.
- ₹1,300 2021
- ₹1,550 2022
- ₹1,500 2023
- ₹2,150 2024
- ₹1,780 2025
Prices are usually best in June.
Typical costs are about ₹1.2 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.