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 5 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 670 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 50 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 40 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 12 °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 61 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹1,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹1,250 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,000 2021
- ₹1,310 2022
- ₹1,100 2023
- ₹1,500 2024
- ₹1,100 2025
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹63,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.