Radish

Water

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

Needs about 210 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 190 mm it can use in a normal year, and 140 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

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

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

• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 103 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 90% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 90% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (September–October 2026): about ₹1,324 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹1.0 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.