Garlic

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 20 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 / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 21 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 35 °C / 21 °C

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 6.0–6.6.

Money

Yield: about 49 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 (March–April 2026): about ₹6,473 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹12,127 a quintal, the middle of 181 mandis across India (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 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.