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. Sold at 17 mandis in your district.
₹2.1 lakh–₹3.2 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.4 lakh–₹2.4 lakh an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
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 560 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 270 mm it can use in a normal year (180 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 32 °C / 23 °C
- Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
- Feb 33 °C / 24 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 26 °C
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 78 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
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 ₹4,150 a quintal at mandis in your district.
- ₹3,000 2021
- ₹3,500 2022
- ₹3,500 2023
- ₹4,000 2024
- ₹4,000 2025
Prices are usually best in June.
Typical costs are about ₹76,000 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
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Ammonium Phosphate Sulphate / Nitrogen Phosphate 11%
- NPK Mixture 7%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 2%
- Urea 2%