Cumin

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 340 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year, and 0 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 17–26 °C on average, and survives 9–30 °C.

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

• Nov 32 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 9 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Cumin: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 6.8–8.3.

Money

Yield: about 2.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹19,825 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹24,500 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 11 Nov).

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹24,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.