Rice
Sow in July, harvest around November
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
Grown on 4.2 lakh acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 16 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 16 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,060 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 310 mm it can use in a normal year, and 200 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 15–36 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jul 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
- Nov 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Rice: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- It copes with the salt here.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of boron.
Likes pH 5.5–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 25 quintals of paddy an acre here in this season (district figures).
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025): about ₹3,250 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,461 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 12 Nov).
Minimum support price: ₹2,441 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹3,250 2023
- ₹2,570 2024
Prices are usually best in February.
Typical costs are about ₹29,000 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 29 quintals of paddy an acre. That's a realistic target.
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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):
- Urea 100%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 99%
- Zinc Sulphate Heptahydrate / Monohydrate 1%
- Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) 0%