Pomegranate

Water

Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,120 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 660 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 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C
• May 39 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• 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 72% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 72% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹6,650 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹6,000 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹19,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in May.

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.