Onion
Sow in July, harvest around November
This season's sowing time (July–August) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 8 mandis in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Warm in July
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 90 mm it can use in a normal year, and 40 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):
- Jul 37 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 33 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 28 °C / 11 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Onion: 7 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 6.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 96 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
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 (December 2025): about ₹1,400 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹4,250 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹2,000 2021
- ₹1,460 2022
- ₹1,500 2023
- ₹2,500 2024
- ₹1,580 2025
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
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Short of phosphorus Your soil is likely short of phosphorus.
Add about a quarter more DAP or single super phosphate than the usual dose, at sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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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.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of manganese Your soil is likely short of manganese.
Spray manganese sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, on the young crop.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.