Jute

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 200 mm it can use in a normal year, and 150 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–37 °C on average, and survives 13–45 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Mar 15 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• May 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 28 °C / 16 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 18 °C

Nights in March can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 11 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 (July–August 2026): about ₹13,250 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹14,250 a quintal, the middle of 10 mandis across India (latest 11 Nov).

Minimum support price: ₹5,925 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹40,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.