Cucumber

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 170 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–32 °C on average, and survives 6–38 °C.

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

• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 64 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 71% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 71% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹2,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

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.