Garlic

Water

Rain falls about 2 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 220 mm it can use in a normal year (150 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: 8 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).

On rain alone it gets about 83% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 83% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹15,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹19,750 a quintal, the middle of 18 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹2.6 lakh a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in July.

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.