Radish

A winter crop. Sow in Oct–Nov, harvest in Dec–Jan.

Check it on your land
Season
Rabi
JJASONDJFMAM

Sowing Growing Harvest

Also grown in kharif.
Ready in
50 days
about 1½ months
Grows best at
12–26 °C
0 °C survives 10–37 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Rabi
Kharif
Today: rabi sowing time
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

West Garo Hills Meghalaya
Water
Season

Possible in West Garo Hills, with effort

Radish

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in June, harvest around August

This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.

₹1.2 lakh–₹1.7 lakh

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹34,000–₹93,000 an acre a season

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Needs care: Warm in June
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 180 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 880 mm it can use in a normal year, and 500 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 12–26 °C on average, and survives 10–37 °C.

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

  • Jun 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jul 31 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Radish: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur.

  • Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
  • Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
  • Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
  • Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 77 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 (August–September 2026): about ₹1,900 a quintal across India's mandis.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹990 2021
  2. ₹1,090 2022
  3. ₹1,130 2023
  4. ₹1,360 2024
  5. ₹1,280 2025

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹82,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

How to make it work

  • Short of phosphorus Your soil is likely short of phosphorus.

    Add about a quarter more DAP or single super phosphate than the usual dose, at sowing.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

  • Short of zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.

    Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

  • Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.

    Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

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What it needs

Temperature

12–26 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 10–37 °C. Frost hurts it.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.3 to 8.3.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
  • N Needs plenty of nitrogen, potassium and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a season

₹54,900

Yield India's average
66.4 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Aug–Sep 2026)
₹1,900 a quintal
= Income
₹1,26,100
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys
−₹71,200
= Left
₹54,900

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,00,900 to ₹1,51,400 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
August, ₹1,900 a quintal
Lowest
January, ₹850 a quintal
₹850
₹1,900
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Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near West Garo Hills Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
5.3 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
66.4 quintals an acre (16.4 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
West Bengal
18% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.