Jowar (Sorghum)
Sow in October, harvest around February
This season's sowing time (September–October) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹13,000–₹19,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹206–₹7,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in November
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 20 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–35 °C on average, and survives 8–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 30 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 26 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Jowar (Sorghum): 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 7.9 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
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–March 2026): about ₹2,804 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,650 a quintal, the middle of 11 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹4,023 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹1,360 2021
- ₹1,700 2022
- ₹2,020 2023
- ₹2,250 2024
- ₹2,220 2025
Prices are usually best in March.
Typical costs are about ₹12,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 8.1 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 4%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 0%