Grapes

Water

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

Needs about 940 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 940 mm it can use in a normal year, and 800 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 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 18 °C
• May 38 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 26 °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.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 21 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 ₹12,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹68,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.