Garlic

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 500 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 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 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 15 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: phosphorus.

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

Likes pH 6.0–6.6.

Money

Yield: about 43 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 (April 2026): about ₹3,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹8,000 a quintal, the middle of 41 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.

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.