Pumpkin

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 420 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 350 mm it can use in a normal year, and 170 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 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 74 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 83% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 83% of this yield.

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹1,250 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹1,000 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹1,000 a season at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in January.

Typical costs are about ₹62,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.