Drumstick (Moringa)

Water

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

Needs about 1,300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 600 mm it can use in a normal year, and 430 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–35 °C on average, and survives 7–48 °C.

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

• Jun 39 °C / 28 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
• May 42 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 39 °C / 28 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Drumstick (Moringa): 10 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

No yield records for this crop yet.

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 through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹4,988 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹7,800 a quintal, the middle of 110 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in December.