Pomegranate

Water

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

Needs about 850 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 730 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 25 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 25 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 25 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 25 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 24 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• May 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 25 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Likes pH 6.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

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 ₹10,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹11,000 a quintal, the middle of 129 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.4 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.