Garlic

Water

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

Needs about 460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 10 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 90 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 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 15 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Garlic: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: potassium, sulphur and manganese.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–6.6.

Money

Yield: about 25 quintals an acre here in this season (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 ₹7,200 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹7,150 a quintal, the middle of 12 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 January.

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.