Pumpkin

Water

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

Needs about 440 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 100 mm it can use in a normal year, and 70 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):

• Jun 28 °C / 16 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 18 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 17 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Pumpkin: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 71 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹1,175 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹1,500 a quintal, the middle of 372 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in March.

Typical costs are about ₹60,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.