Linseed

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (20 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 / 17 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °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: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 2.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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 (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 ₹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 (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.