Wheat
Sow in October, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
Grown on 49,577 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹23,000–₹35,000
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹5,000–₹17,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Needs care: Cool in December
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 160 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 26 °C / 15 °C
- Nov 22 °C / 10 °C
- Dec 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 25 °C / 13 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Wheat: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: organic carbon.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of manganese.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 15 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
On rain alone it gets about 76% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 76% of this yield.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹2,518 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 leave about ₹13,000 a season after 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 9.8 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 81% of local fields of this crop get it.
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Short of manganese Your soil is likely short of manganese.
Spray manganese sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, on the young crop.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 81%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 79%
- Ammonium Sulphate 0%