Grapes
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹2.0 lakh–₹3.0 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹52,000 to a profit of ₹47,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 7 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,130 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 810 mm it can use in a normal year, and 680 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 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 30 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 12 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 12 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 16 °C
- Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
- May 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Grapes: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
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.
On rain alone it gets about 71% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 71% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–April 2026): about ₹4,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in October.
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.