Pomegranate

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 1,000 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 910 mm it can use in a normal year, and 810 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 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 33 °C / 19 °C
• May 37 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.

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.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹16,750 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹16,250 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹6.0 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in June.

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.