Drumstick (Moringa)

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
100% of its area.
Grows best at
20–35 °C
0 °C survives 7–48 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Grown the whole year round.

Will it grow on your land?

Tumakuru Karnataka
Water
Season

Won't work: too dry without irrigation

Drumstick (Moringa)

Holds the land all year

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.

Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on

  • Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

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

Needs about 1,290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 380 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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 30 °C / 21 °C
  • Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
  • Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
  • Sep 29 °C / 20 °C
  • Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
  • Nov 28 °C / 19 °C
  • Dec 28 °C / 16 °C
  • Jan 29 °C / 16 °C
  • Feb 32 °C / 18 °C
  • Mar 35 °C / 21 °C
  • Apr 35 °C / 22 °C
  • May 34 °C / 22 °C
  • Jun 30 °C / 21 °C

Soil

Soil for Drumstick (Moringa): 7 out of 10 (okay).

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

How the soil score works

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 ₹4,100 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹6,250 a quintal, the middle of 10 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹4,060 2021
  2. ₹4,930 2022
  3. ₹4,700 2023
  4. ₹4,830 2024
  5. ₹6,060 2025

Prices are usually best in December.

How to make it work

  • Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.

    Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

  • Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.

    Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

  • Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.

    Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

  • Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.

    Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

  • Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.

    Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

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What it needs

Temperature

20–35 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 7–48 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 5 to 8.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Needs plenty of nitrogen and potassium
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
December, ₹18,000 a quintal
Lowest
April, ₹3,221 a quintal
₹3,221
₹18,000
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Tumakuru Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.