Pomegranate

Water

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

Needs about 1,200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 870 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 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 37 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 24 °C
• May 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °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.
• 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 nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 25 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.

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 ₹15,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹13,000 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.4 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹98,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.