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?

Chennai Tamil Nadu
Water
Season

Won't work: too hot here in this season

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 your state.

₹1.6 lakh–₹2.4 lakh

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹88,000–₹1.7 lakh an acre a season

  • Not known: No rain data
  • Doesn't suit: Too hot here in this season
  • Not known: No soil data
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Needs about 220 mm of water here in its growing months.

Temperature

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

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

  • Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jul 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 66 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (August–September 2026): about ₹3,000 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹71,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

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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
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Chennai 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.