Carrot

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (10 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 3–30 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Carrot: 5 out of 10 (poor).

Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, pH and 3 more.

• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.8–6.8. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 103 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 82% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 82% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹1,550 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹85,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.