Garlic
Sow in October, harvest around March
This season's sowing time (October) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 450 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 10 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 90 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 34 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 31 °C / 16 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 6.0–6.6. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 33 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
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 ₹12,000 a quintal, the middle of 183 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹5,820 2021
- ₹3,500 2022
- ₹6,320 2023
- ₹14,380 2024
- ₹6,280 2025
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.