Pomegranate

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 800 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 610 mm it can use in a normal year, and 470 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 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 25 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 24 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 24 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 14 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 11 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 14 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• May 27 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Soil for Pomegranate: 9 out of 10 (good).

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

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.

On rain alone it gets about 76% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 76% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (April–November 2026): about ₹14,250 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹14,000 a quintal, the middle of 21 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.3 lakh a year after typical costs.

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.