Garlic

Water

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

Needs about 500 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 10 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–30 °C on average, and survives 7–35 °C.

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

• Oct 35 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 26 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 15 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

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

Likes pH 6.0–6.6.

Money

Yield: about 24 quintals an acre here (district figures).

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 ₹6,913 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹12,950 a quintal, the middle of 11 mandis in your state (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 ₹88,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.