Fennel

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 80 mm it can use in a normal year (40 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 27 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 21 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 24 °C / 11 °C
• Mar 28 °C / 14 °C

Soil

Likes pH 6.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 6.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 70% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 70% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹9,711 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹11,100 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹18,000 a season after typical costs.

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 ₹34,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.