Carrot

Water

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

Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year (300 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 20 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 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 15 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 6 °C / -3 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 8 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 14 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• May 23 °C / 12 °C

Soil

Soil for Carrot: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of iron.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

Likes pH 5.8–6.8.

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 ₹2,875 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in September.

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.