Pumpkin

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 370 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 760 mm it can use in a normal year, and 650 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 38 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 (December 2025): about ₹2,600 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹2,450 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹59,000 a season after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in January.

Typical costs are about ₹33,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.