Drumstick (Moringa)

Water

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

Needs about 1,390 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 580 mm it can use in a normal year, and 390 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 37 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C
• May 40 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Drumstick (Moringa): 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• 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 (May–November 2025): about ₹5,550 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,650 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.