Wheat
Sow in November, harvest around March
Sowing time is now.
Grown on 34 acres here. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Very hot in February
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 500 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 31 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
- Jan 31 °C / 15 °C
- Feb 34 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 37 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Days in February get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.
Soil
Soil for Wheat: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and manganese.
- 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 8.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹2,395 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹2,710 a quintal, the middle of 520 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).
Minimum support price: ₹2,610 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹2,190 2022
- ₹2,170 2023
- ₹2,310 2024
- ₹2,340 2025
Prices are usually best in December.
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 13 quintals an acre. That's a realistic target.