Fenugreek (Methi)

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 310 mm it can use in a normal year (210 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 70 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 13–27 °C on average, and survives 5–32 °C.

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

• Nov 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 3 °C / -7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan -2 °C / -10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 1 °C / -8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 12 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• May 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 22 °C / 10 °C
• Jul 22 °C / 12 °C

Soil

Soil for Fenugreek (Methi): 10 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.

Likes pH 7.0–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 6.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (July–August 2026): about ₹6,350 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹7,336 a quintal, the middle of 20 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹20,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹19,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.