Garlic

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (40 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 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 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Garlic: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: boron.

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.

Likes pH 6.0–6.6.

Money

Yield: about 33 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 (March–April 2026): about ₹7,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹13,000 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

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.