Your plan for Chandigarh

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 150 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 12–26 °C on average, and survives 10–37 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 66 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹900 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹30,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 20 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 10–24 °C on average, and survives 4–30 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 46 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹1,900 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹64,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 10–25 °C on average, and survives 5–30 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 84 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹1,050 a quintal at mandis in your district.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹67,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 190 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 13–27 °C on average, and survives 5–32 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 7.0–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 6.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹5,254 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹19,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–29 °C on average, and survives 7–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C
• Mar 29 °C / 15 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–8.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 4.9 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹5,171 a quintal across India's mandis.

Minimum support price: ₹5,958 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.

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.

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 150 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 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–25 °C on average, and survives 4–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

No yield records for this crop yet.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹1,938 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in September.

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 160 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 150 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 17–30 °C on average, and survives 5–41 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

No yield records for this crop yet.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (December 2025–January 2026): about ₹1,088 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in September.

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 190 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 16–25 °C on average, and survives 7–32 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 39 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹3,989 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹83,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–24 °C on average, and survives 3–30 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.8–6.8. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 84 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 84% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 84% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹1,884 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in July.

Typical costs are about ₹69,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–25 °C on average, and survives 4–32 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–8.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 5.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 88% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 88% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹10,125 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹19,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–24 °C on average, and survives 7–32 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 97 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 82% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 82% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹1,000 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹53,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

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 40 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–28 °C on average, and survives 10–38 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 29 °C / 15 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.0–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 38 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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 ₹2,450 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in September.

Typical costs are about ₹57,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 17–26 °C on average, and survives 9–30 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.8–8.3. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 3.0 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 83% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 83% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹19,375 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹33,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–28 °C on average, and survives 7–40 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–8.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 6.0 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 84% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 84% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹5,975 a quintal across India's mandis.

Minimum support price: ₹6,613 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹20,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 10–24 °C on average, and survives 4–30 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–7.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 6.0 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 88% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 88% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹4,018 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹15,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain falls about 2 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 170 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 16–24 °C on average, and survives 5–30 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 6.0–6.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 2.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (February–March 2026): about ₹7,063 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹8,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.

Water

Rain falls about 1 irrigation (5 cm) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year (20 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–29 °C on average, and survives 5–32 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 11 °C
• Mar 29 °C / 15 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 4.1 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

On rain alone it gets about 85% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 85% of this yield.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–April 2026): about ₹6,283 a quintal across India's mandis.

Minimum support price: ₹7,390 a quintal (2027-28), if you sell to government procurement.

Prices are usually best in November.

Typical costs are about ₹16,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.