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?

Tapi Gujarat
Water
Season

Good fit in Tapi

Radish

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in November, harvest around January

Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.

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

₹43,000–₹65,000

per acre a season, before costs

After typical costs: ₹14,000–₹35,000 an acre a season

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 170 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 200 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 33 °C / 17 °C
  • Dec 31 °C / 14 °C

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 66 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 (January–February 2026): about ₹813 a quintal across mandis in your state.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹1,110 2021
  2. ₹1,310 2022
  3. ₹1,230 2023
  4. ₹1,310 2024
  5. ₹1,180 2025

Prices are usually best in May.

Typical costs are about ₹30,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

How to make it work

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

    Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.

    About 100% of local fields of this crop get it.

  • 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.

    Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.

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

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

    Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.

What local farmers put on it (share of fields):

  • Calcium Ammonium Nitrate 100%
  • Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 100%
  • Muriate of Potash (MOP) 100%
  • Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 100%
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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

₹31,500

Yield India's average
66.4 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Dec 2025–Jan 2026)
₹925 a quintal
= Income
₹61,400
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹29,900
= Left
₹31,500

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹49,100 to ₹73,700 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 Tapi 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.