Sunflower

Water

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

Needs about 230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (40 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 17–34 °C on average, and survives 5–45 °C.

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

• Oct 26 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 3.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹6,632 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹7,283 a quintal, the middle of 20 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹3,000 a season after typical costs.

Minimum support price: ₹8,343 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹23,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.