Garlic

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 500 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 260 mm it can use in a normal year (170 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 / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 24 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• 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.

Likes pH 6.0–6.6.

Money

Yield: about 21 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹9,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹25,000 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹4.4 lakh a season after typical costs.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in November.

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.