Cabbage
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 8 mandis in your district.
₹69,000–₹1.0 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹3,000–₹38,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Needs care: Cool in November
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 110 mm it can use in a normal year (60 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 160 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 24 °C / 14 °C
- Nov 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 16 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 13 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 16 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 21 °C / 10 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cabbage: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 119 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 88% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 88% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹825 a quintal at mandis in your district.
- ₹800 2021
- ₹2,100 2022
- ₹780 2023
- ₹1,630 2024
- ₹1,000 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 ₹65,000 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
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
About 100% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 100%