Cabbage

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 440 mm it can use in a normal year (330 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 0 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 11 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 8 °C / -2 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 16 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 21 °C / 9 °C
• May 25 °C / 13 °C

Soil

Soil for Cabbage: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.0–7.5.

Money

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 81% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 81% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹1,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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 ₹62,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.