Colocasia (Arbi)

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 740 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 190 mm it can use in a normal year, and 140 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 21–28 °C on average, and survives 10–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Colocasia (Arbi): 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

No yield records for this crop yet.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹3,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in December.