Grapes

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
100% of its area.
Grows best at
18–30 °C
0 °C survives 10–38 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Planted once, usually at the start of the rains. It stays for years: the first real harvest comes after about 2 years, then one every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Thiruvananthapuram Kerala
Water
Season

Possible in Thiruvananthapuram, with effort

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.

₹5.6 lakh–₹8.3 lakh

per acre a year, before costs

once bearing, from about year 2

After typical costs: ₹3.0 lakh–₹5.8 lakh an acre a year

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

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

Needs about 1,000 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 950 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 / 25 °C
  • Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
  • Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
  • Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
  • Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
  • Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
  • Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
  • Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
  • Feb 33 °C / 24 °C
  • Mar 33 °C / 25 °C
  • Apr 33 °C / 26 °C
  • May 33 °C / 26 °C
  • Jun 31 °C / 25 °C

Soil

Soil for Grapes: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

How the soil score works

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 ₹9,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹7,500 2023
  2. ₹6,500 2024
  3. ₹12,000 2025

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in September.

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.

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What it needs

Temperature

18–30 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–38 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 29; FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a year, once it bears

₹3,58,900

Yield India's average
77.1 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Feb–Apr 2026)
₹7,900 a quintal
= Income
₹6,09,100
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹2,50,200
= Left
₹3,58,900

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹4,87,300 to ₹7,30,900 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

It bears from about year 2: nothing to sell before.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
November, ₹10,000 a quintal
Lowest
April, ₹7,200 a quintal
₹7,200
₹10,000
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Thiruvananthapuram Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
4.3 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
77.1 quintals an acre (19.1 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Maharashtra
68% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.