Linseed

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

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

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

• Oct 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 17 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 11 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 8 °C / -2 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 16 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• May 25 °C / 13 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 17 °C

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 2.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 (June–July 2026): about ₹8,776 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 ₹14,000 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 (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.