Pomegranate

Water

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

Needs about 1,020 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 700 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 36 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 33 °C / 19 °C
• May 37 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 23 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 78% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 78% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–November 2026): about ₹10,500 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹13,250 a quintal, the middle of 20 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹1.5 lakh a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹91,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.