Pomegranate

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 330 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 / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 24 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 40 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 28 °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 zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 84 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (no recent yield figures 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 ₹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).

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹3.3 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.