Onion
Sow in December, harvest around April
Grown on 6.9 acres here. Last recorded in 2015-16. Sold at 1 mandi in your district.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year, and 30 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 22 °C / 8 °C
- Jan 19 °C / 7 °C
- Feb 23 °C / 11 °C
- Mar 29 °C / 15 °C
- Apr 35 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
Yield: about 64 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (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 (April–May 2026): about ₹1,200 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹4,200 a quintal, the middle of 617 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
- ₹1,250 2022
- ₹1,500 2023
- ₹2,500 2024
- ₹1,400 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in September.
Typical costs are about ₹42,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.