Jowar (Sorghum)
Sow in October, harvest around February
This season's sowing time (September–October) is over.
No figures for this season in your district. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹16,000–₹25,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹4,000–₹12,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Needs care: Cool in December
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 90 mm it can use in a normal year (50 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 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 26 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Jowar (Sorghum): 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 7.2 quintals an acre here in its other seasons (district figures).
On rain alone it gets about 88% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 88% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹3,262 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹4,449 a quintal, the middle of 22 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹16,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹4,023 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹1,850 2021
- ₹2,210 2022
- ₹3,700 2023
- ₹2,990 2024
- ₹2,540 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in November.
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
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 76%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 24%