Wheat
Sow in November, harvest around March
Sowing time is now.
Grown on 5,518 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
₹10,000–₹15,000
per acre a season, before costs
Likely a loss at typical costs: ₹4,000–₹9,000 an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 6 irrigations short
- Needs care: Very hot in March
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 10 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 190 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 30 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 28 °C / 13 °C
- Jan 28 °C / 13 °C
- Feb 31 °C / 16 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Days in March get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.
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.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 5.3 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹2,320 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,530 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 12 Nov). At that price an acre would lose about ₹5,000 a season at typical costs.
Minimum support price: ₹2,610 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹1,710 2021
- ₹2,010 2022
- ₹2,130 2023
- ₹2,280 2024
- ₹2,430 2025
Prices are usually best in November.
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 14 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 79% of local fields of this crop get it.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 79%
- Urea 58%
- Calcium Ammonium Nitrate 21%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 17%