Grapes
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 4 mandis in your district.
₹8.9 lakh–₹13.4 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹6.4 lakh–₹10.9 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 630 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 610 mm it can use in a normal year, and 470 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 28 °C / 16 °C
- Jul 25 °C / 18 °C
- Aug 24 °C / 17 °C
- Sep 24 °C / 16 °C
- Oct 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 14 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 11 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 14 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- May 27 °C / 15 °C
- Jun 28 °C / 16 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Grapes: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–April 2026): about ₹14,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.
Prices are usually best in June.
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.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.