Grapes

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 1,010 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 31 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 26 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 12 °C
• Jan 26 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 21 °C
• May 34 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 23 °C

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• 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.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–April 2026): about ₹7,900 a quintal across India's mandis.

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.