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.
₹23,000–₹35,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹2,000–₹13,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 620 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 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 38 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
Soil
Soil for Brinjal: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–6.8.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 21 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 78% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 78% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹1,800 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹1,275 a quintal, the middle of 8 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹957 a season at typical costs.
- ₹1,340 2021
- ₹1,530 2022
- ₹1,400 2023
- ₹1,740 2024
- ₹1,630 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹21,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.