Pomegranate

Water

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

Needs about 1,250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 450 mm it can use in a normal year, and 310 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 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 44 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Pomegranate: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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 (December 2024–November 2025): about ₹7,450 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 swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in April.

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.