Linseed

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 70 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 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 29 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Linseed: 10 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 1.4 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹7,233 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹10,000 a quintal, the middle of 17 mandis across India (latest 12 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹5,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in November.

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.