Rapeseed & Mustard
Sow in October, harvest around February
This season's sowing time (October) is over.
Grown on 1,878 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹25,000–₹37,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹4,000–₹17,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 1 irrigation short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Needs care: Soil 5/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 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 / 18 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
- Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 23 °C / 10 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Rapeseed & Mustard: 5 out of 10 (poor).
Not in the score: nitrogen, organic carbon, pH and 3 more.
- Most fields here are short of potassium.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0. We have no pH figures for this place.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 5.8 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
On rain alone it gets about 82% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 82% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹6,462 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹8,226 a quintal, the middle of 176 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹19,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹6,613 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.
Prices are usually best in June.
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
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Short of potassium Your soil is likely short of potassium.
Add about a quarter more potash (MOP) than the usual dose.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.