Maize
Sow in June, harvest around September
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 148 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 110 mm it can use in a normal year, and 50 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 18–33 °C on average, and survives 10–47 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
- Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Maize: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 13 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 (September 2026): about ₹2,200 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,700 a quintal, the middle of 495 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
Minimum support price: ₹2,410 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹2,180 2023
- ₹2,190 2024
- ₹2,000 2025
Prices are usually best in September.
Typical costs are about ₹22,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.