Pomegranate

Water

Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 910 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 810 mm it can use in a normal year, and 670 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 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 27 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 26 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 27 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• May 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)

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

Likes pH 6.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

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.

On rain alone it gets about 89% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 89% of this yield.

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). At that price an acre would leave about ₹2.8 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.