Carrot

A winter crop. Sow in Oct–Nov, harvest in Jan–Feb.

Check it on your land
Season
Rabi
JJASONDJFMAM

Sowing Growing Harvest

Ready in
100 days
about 3½ months
Grows best at
15–24 °C
0 °C survives 3–30 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Rabi
Today: rabi sowing time
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

Anantnag Jammu And Kashmir
Water
Season

Won't work: too cold in January

Carrot

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in October, harvest around May

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 3 mandis in your district.

₹74,000–₹1.1 lakh

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹39,000–₹77,000 an acre a season

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
  • Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 400 mm it can use in a normal year (330 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 40 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–24 °C on average, and survives 3–30 °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 Carrot: 9 out of 10 (good).

  • The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 5.8–6.8.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 28 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹3,300 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹2,300 2022
  2. ₹2,180 2023
  3. ₹2,500 2024
  4. ₹2,100 2025

Prices are usually best in June.

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.

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What it needs

Temperature

15–24 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 3–30 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.2 to 8.7.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Needs plenty of nitrogen and potassium
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a season

₹52,200

Yield India's average
84.4 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Jan–Feb 2026)
₹1,375 a quintal
= Income
₹1,16,100
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹63,900
= Left
₹52,200

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹92,900 to ₹1,39,300 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
July, ₹3,500 a quintal
Lowest
January, ₹1,350 a quintal
₹1,350
₹3,500
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Anantnag Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
3.3 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
84.4 quintals an acre (20.9 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Punjab
20% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.