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 your state.
₹39,000–₹58,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹11,000–₹31,000 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 620 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 710 mm it can use in a normal year, and 650 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 36 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 30 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cotton: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 6.8 quintals of kapas (raw cotton) an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹7,175 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹8,750 a quintal, the middle of 30 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹32,000 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.
- ₹5,800 2021
- ₹9,200 2022
- ₹6,930 2023
- ₹6,920 2025
Prices are usually best in August.
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.