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 India.
₹87,000–₹1.3 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹27,000–₹71,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 28 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 9 °C
- Jan 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cabbage: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur.
- Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 97 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹1,125 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹1,190 2021
- ₹1,530 2022
- ₹1,000 2023
- ₹1,670 2024
- ₹1,350 2025
Prices are usually best in September.
Typical costs are about ₹60,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.