Cauliflower
Sow in November, harvest around February
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. Sold at 4 mandis in your district.
₹1.1 lakh–₹1.7 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹40,000–₹97,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 190 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 10–25 °C on average, and survives 5–30 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Nov 21 °C / 9 °C
- Dec 17 °C / 6 °C
- Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 18 °C / 7 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cauliflower: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: organic carbon, sulphur, manganese and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
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 last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹1,550 a quintal at mandis in your district.
- ₹1,550 2021
- ₹2,630 2022
- ₹2,000 2023
- ₹3,300 2024
- ₹3,150 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in August.
Typical costs are about ₹73,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 100%