Snake Gourd

Water

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

Needs about 490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 170 mm it can use in a normal year, and 90 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 22–35 °C on average, and survives 14–38 °C.

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

• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 37 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 27 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Snake Gourd: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

No yield records for this crop yet.

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 this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹3,900 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹3,500 a quintal, the middle of 109 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.