Wheat
Sow in October, harvest around May
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 29,716 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹14,000–₹21,000
per acre a season, before costs
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹5,000 to a profit of ₹2,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 3 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in November
- Suits: Soil 8/10
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 430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year (70 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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):
- Oct 21 °C / 10 °C
- Nov 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 14 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 12 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 25 °C / 11 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Wheat: 8 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 6.7 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (May–June 2026): about ₹2,596 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,724 a quintal, the middle of 497 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹324 a season at typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹2,610 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹2,080 2022
- ₹2,190 2023
- ₹2,290 2024
- ₹2,460 2025
Prices are usually best in June.
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.
How to make it work
The better districts with similar soil, rain and warmth get 7.9 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
About 17% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 17%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 2%
- Calcium Ammonium Nitrate 0%