Okra (Bhindi)
Sow in June, harvest around September
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹73,000–₹1.1 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹3,000 to a profit of ₹33,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Needs care: Warm in June
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 380 mm it can use in a normal year, and 310 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 12–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Okra (Bhindi): 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 62 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹1,673 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹1,590 2021
- ₹1,800 2022
- ₹1,720 2023
- ₹1,990 2024
- ₹1,850 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹76,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.