Okra (Bhindi)
A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Sep–Oct.
Sowing Growing Harvest
When to sow and harvest
Sowing Growing Harvest
Will it grow on your land?
Pick your place and water to see:
- Whether Okra (Bhindi) suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
- What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
- Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.
What it needs
Temperature
Survives 12–35 °C. Frost hurts it.
Water
The check above works out its water need on your land.
Soil pH
Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.7.
Soil
- No salty soil
- Needs rich soil
- N Needs plenty of nitrogen and potassium
Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.
Fertiliser for one acre
Draft: check with your KVKFor most fields
Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.
Watch out for
Draft: check with your KVK-
Yellow vein mosaicDisease
Look for
A yellow network of veins; fruit pale and hard; spread by whitefly.
What to do first
Grow a resistant variety and pull out sick plants.
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Fruit and shoot borerPest
Look for
Shoot tips wilt; holes in the fruit with caterpillars inside.
What to do first
Cut and destroy hit shoots and fruit every week; spray only on advice.
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JassidsPest
Look for
Leaf edges turn yellow and curl.
What to do first
Spray when many plants are hit. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.
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Powdery mildewDisease
Look for
White powder on the leaves.
What to do first
Spray wettable sulphur. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.
What an acre earns
At India's average yield and the usual price at harvest. Your land, water and mandi will differ.
Left an acre, a season
₹49,900
- Yield India's average
- 55.8 quintals an acre
- × Price usual mandi price in Sep, Oct
- ₹1,988 a quintal
- = Income
- ₹1,11,000
- − Costs about half of income, as in farm cost surveys
- −₹61,000
- = Left
- ₹49,900
A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹88,800 to ₹1,33,200 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.
Work it out for your landMandi price, month by month
Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis. Average of 2021–2025.
Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).
Where it grows in India
- Area grown in India
- 14.2 lakh acres
- 2025-26
- Average yield
- 56 quintals an acre (13.8 tonnes a hectare)
- 2025-26
- Most area
- Gujarat
- 18% of India's
States that grow it
Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.
Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).
Where it grows most
The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.
No recent district figures for this crop.
Across India over the years
Yield across India, quintals an acre
Area sown across India, acres
Years run July to June. Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.
Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2002-03 & 2003-04.