Pomegranate

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 390 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 23–32 °C on average, and survives 8–40 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 41 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Pomegranate: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: potassium, sulphur and manganese.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 49 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

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 through the year (January–December 2025): about ₹7,875 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹11,000 a quintal, the middle of 129 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹1.9 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.