Sannhemp

A monsoon crop. Sow in Jun–Jul, harvest in Oct–Nov.

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Season
Kharif
JJASONDJFMAM

Sowing Growing Harvest

93% of its area.
Ready in
120 days
about 4 months
Water
360–440 mm
of water over its season (rain plus irrigation)
Grows best at
20–30 °C
0 °C survives 4–40 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Kharif 93% of its area
Today: kharif harvest
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

Ranipet Tamil Nadu
Water
Season

Good fit in Ranipet

Sannhemp

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in July, harvest around November

This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.

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

No price yet to estimate income

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 450 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 4–40 °C.

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

  • Jul 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
  • Aug 34 °C / 25 °C
  • Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
  • Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
  • Nov 30 °C / 22 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Sannhemp: 8 out of 10 (good).

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Low nitrogen matters less: it makes its own.
  • Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
  • Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
  • Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 12 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.

How to make it work

  • Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.

    Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.

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

  • Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.

    Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.

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

  • Short of manganese Your soil is likely short of manganese.

    Spray manganese sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, on the young crop.

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

  • Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.

    Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.

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

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What it needs

Temperature

20–30 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 4–40 °C.

Water

360–440 mm over its season

Rain and irrigation together, worked out where most of it grows:

Rayagada Guntur Prakasam Mysuru Ganjam

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 5 to 8.4.

Soil

  • Takes a little salt
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • N Makes its own nitrogen
  • K Needs plenty of potassium and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); 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
4,974 acres
2024-25
Average yield
3.0 quintals an acre (0.7 tonnes a hectare)
recent years, to 2024-25
Most area
Mysuru
Karnataka
Best yield
Samastipur
3.4 quintals an acre

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.

45% of India's sannhemp area is in these 10 districts

  1. 1 Mysuru Karnataka 11% 1,596 acres
  2. 2 Banka Bihar 5.2% 766 acres
  3. 3 Balrampur-Ramanujganj Chhattisgarh 4.8% 701 acres
  4. 4 Varanasi Uttar Pradesh 4.3% 629 acres
  5. 5 Chamarajanagar Karnataka 4.3% 624 acres
  6. 6 Hamirpur Uttar Pradesh 3.7% 535 acres
  7. 7 Supaul Bihar 3.1% 448 acres
  8. 8 Sonbhadra Uttar Pradesh 3.0% 435 acres
  9. 9 Jalaun Uttar Pradesh 2.8% 415 acres
  10. 10 Belagavi Karnataka 2.8% 413 acres

Sannhemp yield, quintals an acre (average of 2020-21 to 2024-25 in most districts)

  1. 1.3–1.9
  2. 2.0–2.7
  3. 3.3–11
  4. 12–17
  5. 19–30
No data

1 Numbers match the list: the districts with the most area.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2018-19 to 2024-25.

Where yields are highest

Districts growing it on at least 100 ha, against the average across India. The line runs from India's average to each district.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2018-19 to 2024-25.

Across India over the years

Yield across India, quintals an acre

0 5 q 10 q 15 q
1998-99 2024-25
Latest 2.9 quintals an acre in 2024-25

Area sown across India, acres

0 25,000 50,000 75,000 1 lakh
1998-99 2024-25
Latest 4,974 acres in 2024-25

Years run July to June. Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 1998-99 to 2024-25.