Linseed

Water

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

Needs about 360 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 150 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 / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 32 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 29 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 11 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 14 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Linseed: 9 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 4.4 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 ₹7,184 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 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.