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 3 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 260 mm it can use in a normal year, and 220 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 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 13 °C
- Dec 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 31 °C / 15 °C
- Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
- May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Grapes: 7 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Salt in the soil here can harm it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
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.
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–April 2026): about ₹8,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.
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.
How to make it work
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.