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.
₹31,000–₹46,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹4,000–₹19,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Needs care: Very hot in June
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 350 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 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 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Days in June get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.
Soil
Soil for Okra (Bhindi): 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 22 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
On rain alone it gets about 75% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 75% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹2,363 a quintal across mandis in your state.
- ₹2,450 2021
- ₹2,300 2022
- ₹2,700 2023
- ₹2,560 2024
- ₹2,900 2025
Prices are usually best in January.
Typical costs are about ₹27,000 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.
About 100% of local fields of this crop get it.
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 100%