Fenugreek (Methi)

Water

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

Needs about 260 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 110 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 31 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 13 °C

Soil

Soil for Fenugreek (Methi): 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 7.0–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 5.4 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 (February–March 2026): about ₹5,135 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹6,826 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹16,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.