Grapes

Water

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

Needs about 1,150 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 360 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–30 °C on average, and survives 10–38 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 77 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 2 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

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 (February 2026, April 2026): about ₹6,191 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹2.5 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.