Fennel

Water

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

Needs about 590 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 100 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–25 °C on average, and survives 6–32 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Oct 36 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 34 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 11 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Fennel: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 8.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹9,894 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹11,000 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹42,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.