Drumstick (Moringa)

Water

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

Needs about 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 600 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 34 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 22 °C
• May 38 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 34 °C / 24 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Drumstick (Moringa): 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.

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.