Grows best at
20–24 °C
0 °C survives 11–35 °C 40 °C

Will it grow on your land?

Lahaul And Spiti Himachal Pradesh
Water
Season

Won't work: too cold in January

Rose

Holds the land all year

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.

No price yet to estimate income

  • Needs care: Risky: 4 irrigations short
  • Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
  • Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 660 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–24 °C on average, and survives 11–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

  • Jun 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jul 22 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
  • Aug 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
  • Sep 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
  • Oct 16 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
  • Nov 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
  • Dec 3 °C / -7 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jan -2 °C / -10 °C (outside its best range)
  • Feb 1 °C / -8 °C (outside its best range)
  • Mar 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
  • Apr 12 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
  • May 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
  • Jun 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)

Soil

Soil for Rose: 9 out of 10 (good).

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 70 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 2 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

On rain alone it gets about 70% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 70% of this yield.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.

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.

    Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.

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What it needs

Temperature

20–24 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 11–35 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 5.5 to 7.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
How the soil score works

Source: ICAR-IIHR (Arka flower varieties and production technology, 2021); PAU package of practices (Ornamental Crops, 2022); TNAU Agritech Portal; Agriculture Census 2010-11; 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.

Mandi price, month by month

No mandi prices for this crop yet.

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
1.2 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
70.5 quintals an acre (17.4 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Uttar Pradesh
32% 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.