Cauliflower
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 your state.
₹1.2 lakh–₹1.8 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹46,000–₹1.1 lakh an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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):
- Oct 32 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 29 °C / 17 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 12 °C
- Jan 24 °C / 10 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cauliflower: 8 out of 10 (good).
- Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 102 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 78% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 78% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹1,900 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹1,900 2021
- ₹2,200 2022
- ₹2,500 2023
- ₹3,650 2024
- ₹2,530 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 ₹74,000 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
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 100%
- NPK Mixture 17%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 3%