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 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 150 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 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 14 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Garlic: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–6.6.

Money

Yield: about 44 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 (April–May 2026): about ₹5,790 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹12,625 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your district (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 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.