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?

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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 India.

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

  • Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work

Water

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

Needs about 1,270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 300 mm it can use in a normal year, and 230 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 36 °C / 27 °C
  • Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
  • Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
  • Oct 33 °C / 20 °C
  • Nov 28 °C / 13 °C
  • Dec 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
  • Feb 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
  • Mar 31 °C / 16 °C
  • Apr 37 °C / 22 °C
  • May 40 °C / 26 °C
  • Jun 39 °C / 28 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

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 115 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹4,580 2021
  2. ₹5,250 2022
  3. ₹3,850 2023
  4. ₹5,260 2024
  5. ₹6,250 2025

Prices are usually best in December.

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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 New Delhi 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.