Cauliflower
Sow in July, harvest around October
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹1.7 lakh–₹2.6 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹42,000–₹1.3 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
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Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 370 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 10–25 °C on average, and survives 5–30 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jul 30 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 29 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 27 °C / 17 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cauliflower: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 91 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹2,350 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹1,600 a quintal, the middle of 27 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹17,000 a season after typical costs.
- ₹3,250 2022
- ₹2,130 2023
- ₹3,830 2024
- ₹2,800 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in September.
Typical costs are about ₹1.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.