Cotton
Sow in June, harvest around December
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 2.5 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹36,000–₹55,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹9,000–₹27,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in July
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 520 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 770 mm it can use in a normal year, and 610 mm in a dry year.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–36 °C on average, and survives 15–42 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 26 °C / 19 °C
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cotton: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 6.1 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 ₹7,466 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹9,236 a quintal, the middle of 29 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹29,000 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.
- ₹6,170 2021
- ₹9,480 2022
- ₹7,080 2023
- ₹7,250 2024
- ₹7,170 2025
Prices are usually best in September.
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.