Pumpkin

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 390 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 360 mm it can use in a normal year, and 280 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 10–40 °C.

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

• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 22 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 161 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (November–December 2025): about ₹1,660 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹1,100 a quintal, the middle of 15 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹36,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in January.

Typical costs are about ₹1.4 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.