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 2 mandis in your district.
₹6.2 lakh–₹9.3 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹3.7 lakh–₹6.7 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 770 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 770 mm it can use in a normal year, and 610 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 32 °C / 21 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 27 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 25 °C / 15 °C
- Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 15 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 18 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 29 °C / 16 °C
- May 32 °C / 20 °C
- Jun 32 °C / 21 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Grapes: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
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 ₹10,000 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.