Radish

Water

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

Needs about 120 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 100 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 29 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, copper and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 80 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

On rain alone it gets about 86% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 86% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹1,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹36,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.