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 350 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 36 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 24 °C
• May 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 58 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 2025–November 2026): about ₹7,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹10,400 a quintal, the middle of 134 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 November.

Typical costs are about ₹2.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.