₹1.1 lakh–₹1.6 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 5
After typical costs: ₹82,000–₹1.4 lakh an acre a year
- Not known: No rain data
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
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Water
Needs about 1,670 mm of water here in its growing months.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–34 °C on average, and survives 14–38 °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 5.0–8.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 25 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 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price through the year (December 2025–May 2026, July–November 2026): about ₹5,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹5,400 a quintal, the middle of 9 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.1 lakh a year after typical costs.
- ₹2,700 2021
- ₹2,220 2022
- ₹2,240 2023
- ₹3,030 2024
- ₹6,250 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹27,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.