Cucumber

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 720 mm it can use in a normal year, and 630 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 18–32 °C on average, and survives 6–38 °C.

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

• Jun 28 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 22 °C

Soil

Soil for Cucumber: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.0–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 64 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–September 2026): about ₹2,200 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹70,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.