₹16,000–₹24,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 3
Likely a loss at typical costs: ₹917–₹9,000 an acre a year
- Not known: No rain data
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
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Water
Needs about 1,290 mm of water here in its growing months.
Temperature
Grows best at 15–35 °C on average, and survives 5–46 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 36 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 35 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 33 °C / 25 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 22 °C
- Jan 30 °C / 21 °C
- Feb 32 °C / 22 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 24 °C
- Apr 36 °C / 26 °C
- May 38 °C / 28 °C
- Jun 37 °C / 27 °C
Soil
Likes pH 4.5–6.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 1.3 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–May 2026): about ₹14,855 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹11,475 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹9,000 a year at typical costs.
- ₹9,530 2021
- ₹10,180 2022
- ₹8,530 2023
- ₹10,500 2024
- ₹12,500 2025
Prices are usually best in February.
Typical costs are about ₹25,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.