Onion
Sow in July, harvest around November
This season's sowing time (July–August) is over.
Grown on 17 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹1.1 lakh–₹1.6 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹8,000–₹62,000 an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Warm in July
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 790 mm it can use in a normal year, and 730 mm in a dry year.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 12–25 °C on average, and survives 4–33 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 32 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 31 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 29 °C / 18 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Onion: 9 out of 10 (good).
- Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
- Most fields here are short of boron.
Likes pH 6.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 46 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹2,975 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹5,350 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.4 lakh a season after typical costs.
Prices are usually best in November.
Typical costs are about ₹1.0 lakh 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
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 50 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.