Cotton
Sow in June, harvest around December
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. Priced from mandis across India.
₹29,000–₹44,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹2,000–₹17,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in October
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 520 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 500 mm it can use in a normal year, and 450 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–36 °C on average, and survives 15–42 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 32 °C / 21 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 27 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cotton: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 5.0 quintals of kapas (raw cotton) an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹7,350 a quintal across India's mandis.
This week: about ₹8,823 a quintal, the middle of 224 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹17,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹8,267 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
That is the price for medium staple kapas (raw cotton). Long staple kapas has ₹8,667 a quintal.
- ₹6,180 2021
- ₹9,050 2022
- ₹7,000 2023
- ₹7,050 2024
- ₹7,130 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹28,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.