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 6 mandis in your district.
₹3.1 lakh–₹4.6 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹58,000–₹2.1 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 840 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 950 mm it can use in a normal year, and 710 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 28 °C / 21 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 20 °C
- Oct 26 °C / 15 °C
- Nov 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 12 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 17 °C
- May 33 °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).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- 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 ₹5,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.
- ₹4,000 2022
- ₹3,550 2023
- ₹4,750 2025
Prices are usually best in February.
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.