Linseed

Water

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

Needs about 380 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 100 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 35 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 33 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 11 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 14 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in October get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

Soil for Linseed: 8 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.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 2.6 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 (February–March 2026): about ₹7,063 a quintal across India's mandis.

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

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.