Rapeseed & Mustard
Sow in October, harvest around February
This season's sowing time (October) is over.
Grown on 90,804 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹23,000–₹35,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹3,000–₹15,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 15–28 °C on average, and survives 7–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Oct 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 14 °C
- Jan 25 °C / 12 °C
- Feb 29 °C / 16 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Rapeseed & Mustard: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 5.9 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
On rain alone it gets about 77% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 77% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹6,450 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹6,550 a quintal, the middle of 12 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹10,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹6,613 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹6,800 2021
- ₹6,830 2022
- ₹5,600 2023
- ₹5,730 2024
- ₹6,310 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹20,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 4.6 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.
Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.
About 18% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 97%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 42%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 22%
- NPK Mixture 22%