Jute

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 640 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 60 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):

• May 42 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 41 °C / 28 °C
• Jul 38 °C / 28 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 37 °C / 25 °C

Soil

Soil for Jute: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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 (September–October 2026): about ₹12,950 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹14,950 a quintal, the middle of 12 mandis across India (latest 13 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.