Brinjal
Sow in November, harvest around April
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 India.
₹94,000–₹1.4 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹26,000–₹73,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in November
- Suits: Soil 10/10
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 420 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 150 mm it can use in a normal year (100 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):
- Nov 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 26 °C / 16 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur.
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
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 84% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 84% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–May 2026): about ₹1,800 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹1,450 2021
- ₹1,640 2022
- ₹1,510 2023
- ₹1,910 2024
- ₹1,750 2025
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹68,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.