Wheat
Sow in November, harvest around April
Sowing time is now.
Grown on 3.5 lakh acres here. Sold at 5 mandis in your district.
₹20,000–₹30,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1,000–₹11,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Not known: No soil score
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 3 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 340 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 50 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 150 mm from the monsoon at sowing.
Temperature
Grows best at 15–25 °C on average, and survives 5–27 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Nov 26 °C / 11 °C
- Dec 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 10 °C
- Mar 28 °C / 14 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
No soil score here: the soil tests don't say enough about nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0.
Money
Yield: about 16 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
On rain alone it gets about 58% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 58% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–May 2026): about ₹2,585 a quintal at mandis in your district.
This week: about ₹2,724 a quintal, the middle of 497 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹7,000 a season after typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹2,610 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.
Prices are usually best in April.
Typical costs are about ₹19,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.