Your plan for New Delhi
We checked 49 crops against your soil, rain and temperature, whether or not they're grown near you.
Your land
Soil
No soil survey for this place yet. Add your soil card to judge soil.
Rain
About 43 mm in Rabi
October–February, in a normal year. A dry year brings about 21 mm.
Temperature
Days about 26 °C, nights 12 °C in Rabi
Typical of the district's villages; a farm much higher or lower can be a few degrees cooler or warmer.
Good fit 0
Water, temperature and soil type suit; amber shows what needs care, such as nutrients to add. Sorted by what is likely left per acre after costs; risky crops come lower.
Nothing fits well this season. Look at the crops below that are possible with effort, or try another season.
Possible, with effort 0
Each needs something extra: irrigation, soil care or a careful sowing time, or it likely loses money at typical costs. The card says what.
No crops in this group.
49 crops won't work here See why for each one
- Ajwain too dry without irrigation
- Barley too dry without irrigation
- Beans (Vegetable) too dry without irrigation
- Beetroot too dry without irrigation
- Brinjal too dry without irrigation
- Cabbage too dry without irrigation
- Capsicum too dry without irrigation
- Carrot too dry without irrigation
- Cauliflower too dry without irrigation
- Chillies (Dry) too dry without irrigation
- Coriander too dry without irrigation
- Cowpea (Lobia) too cold in January
- Cumin too dry without irrigation
- Fennel too dry without irrigation
- Fenugreek (Methi) too dry without irrigation
- Garlic too dry without irrigation
- Gladiolus too dry without irrigation
- Gram (Chana) too dry without irrigation
- Green Chillies too dry without irrigation
- Green Peas too dry without irrigation
- Groundnut too cold here in this season
- Horse Gram (Kulthi) too cold in December
- Jowar (Sorghum) too dry without irrigation
- Khesari (Grass Pea) too dry without irrigation
- Lablab Bean (Sem) too dry without irrigation
- Lentil (Masoor) too dry without irrigation
- Linseed too dry without irrigation
- Maize too dry without irrigation
- Marigold too dry without irrigation
- Moong (Green Gram) too cold here in this season
- Niger Seed too dry without irrigation
- Onion too dry without irrigation
- Peas & Beans (Dry) too dry without irrigation
- Potato too dry without irrigation
- Radish too dry without irrigation
- Ragi (Finger Millet) too dry without irrigation
- Rajmash (Kidney Bean) too dry without irrigation
- Rapeseed & Mustard too dry without irrigation
- Safflower too dry without irrigation
- Sannhemp too dry without irrigation
- Sesame (Til) too dry without irrigation
- Strawberry too dry without irrigation
- Sunflower too dry without irrigation
- Sweet Potato too dry without irrigation
- Tobacco too dry without irrigation
- Tomato too dry without irrigation
- Turnip too dry without irrigation
- Urad (Black Gram) too cold here in this season
- Wheat too dry without irrigation
10 more crops aren't judged yet because we don't have their growing needs.
Next steps
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Source: Soil Health Card – soil nutrient analysis (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are; FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).