Garlic

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 370 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 80 mm it can use in a normal year (30 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 30 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 14 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Garlic: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur.

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 6.0–6.6.

Money

Yield: about 13 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 75% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 75% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March 2026): about ₹11,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹12,000 a quintal, the middle of 196 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹26,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in August.

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.