Cucumber
Sow in June, harvest around August
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. Sold at 17 mandis in your district.
₹1.2 lakh–₹1.9 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹60,000–₹1.2 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,020 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 30 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
Soil
Soil for Cucumber: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 58 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–September 2026): about ₹2,650 a quintal at mandis in your district.
- ₹1,900 2021
- ₹2,000 2022
- ₹1,400 2023
- ₹2,130 2024
- ₹2,100 2025
Prices are usually best in October.
Typical costs are about ₹63,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 12%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 2%
- Ammonium Phosphate Sulphate / Nitrogen Phosphate 1%
- Urea 0%