Cabbage
Sow in October, harvest around January
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.
₹97,000–₹1.5 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹62,000–₹1.1 lakh an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Needs care: Soil 5/10
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 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 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 26 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 23 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cabbage: 5 out of 10 (poor).
Not in the score: organic carbon.
- Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
- Salt in the soil here can harm it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 56 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 86% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 86% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹2,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹35,000 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 85% of local fields of this crop get it.
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Short of potassium Your soil is likely short of potassium.
Add about a quarter more potash (MOP) than the usual dose.
About 80% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 85%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 80%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 71%
- Calcium Ammonium Nitrate 6%