Cabbage
Sow in October, harvest around June
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 your state.
₹1.1 lakh–₹1.7 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹41,000–₹98,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in december
- 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 580 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year (360 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 10 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 15–24 °C on average, and survives 7–32 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 23 °C / 8 °C
- Nov 17 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 7 °C / -3 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 15 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- May 25 °C / 12 °C
Soil
Soil for Cabbage: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 97 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
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 (June–July 2026): about ₹1,750 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹1,100 2021
- ₹2,130 2022
- ₹1,030 2023
- ₹2,300 2024
- ₹1,300 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹72,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.