Garlic

Water

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

Needs about 410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 100 mm it can use in a normal year (50 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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 / 23 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 25 °C / 11 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 13 °C

Soil

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

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

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).

On rain alone it gets about 73% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 73% of this yield.

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). At that price an acre would leave about ₹2.3 lakh a season after typical costs.

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.