Safflower

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 380 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 140 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–32 °C on average, and survives 5–45 °C.

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

• Sep 29 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 16 °C

Soil

Soil for Safflower: 8 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.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 3.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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 (January–February 2026): about ₹6,866 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹5,965 a quintal, the middle of 10 mandis in your state (latest 12 Nov).

Minimum support price: ₹7,215 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.

Prices are usually best in December.

Typical costs are about ₹15,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.