Linseed

Water

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

Needs about 300 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 10 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 90 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 16–24 °C on average, and survives 5–30 °C.

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

• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Linseed: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: potassium, sulphur and manganese.

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

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 2.5 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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–March 2026): about ₹7,959 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹10,000 a quintal, the middle of 17 mandis across India (latest 12 Nov).

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹8,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.