Pomegranate

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 950 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 2,070 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,810 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 23–32 °C on average, and survives 8–40 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 31 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 31 °C / 21 °C
• May 31 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 24 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Pomegranate: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: sulphur.

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

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.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹10,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹10,400 a quintal, the middle of 134 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3.1 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in June.

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.