Pomegranate

Water

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

Needs about 1,100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 640 mm it can use in a normal year, and 560 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 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 36 °C / 20 °C
• May 39 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 38 °C / 26 °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

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• 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.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

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.

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 ₹9,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹13,250 a quintal, the middle of 20 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

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.