Radish

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 60 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 10 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 12–26 °C on average, and survives 10–37 °C.

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

• Nov 17 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 10 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in November can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 86 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 70% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 70% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹1,088 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹38,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.