Onion
Sow in December, harvest around July
Grown on 83 acres here. Last recorded in 2017-18. Sold at 3 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 5 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 670 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 12–25 °C on average, and survives 4–33 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Dec 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 7 °C / -3 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 15 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 21 °C / 9 °C
- May 25 °C / 12 °C
- Jun 28 °C / 16 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 18 °C
Soil
Soil for Onion: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 84 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 (July–August 2026): about ₹2,975 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹4,800 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,500 2021
- ₹2,180 2022
- ₹2,150 2023
- ₹3,430 2024
- ₹2,450 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
Typical costs are about ₹49,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.