Drumstick (Moringa)

Water

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

Needs about 1,410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 730 mm it can use in a normal year, and 450 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 38 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
• May 41 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

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

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 115 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in December.