Carrot
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.
₹93,000–₹1.4 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹29,000–₹75,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
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 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 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 27 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 25 °C / 15 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 11 °C
- Jan 21 °C / 10 °C
Soil
Likes pH 5.8–6.8. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 84 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹1,375 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹1,790 2021
- ₹2,050 2022
- ₹2,090 2023
- ₹2,240 2024
- ₹2,240 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹64,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.