Pomegranate

Water

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

Needs about 1,150 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 410 mm it can use in a normal year, and 220 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 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 30 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 22 °C
• May 34 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 29 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 43 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 ₹10,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹12,000 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹1.7 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.