Cauliflower

Check it on your land
Ready in
100 days
about 3½ months
Temperature
10–25 °C
0° survives 5–30 °C 40°

Will it grow on your land?

Water
Season

Pick a place and water to see if it suits your land, and what it earns.

What it needs

Temperature

10–25 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 5–30 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 5.5 to 8.5.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Needs rich soil
  • N Needs plenty of nitrogen, potassium and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°).

Fertiliser for one acre

Draft: check with your KVK
Urea nitrogen
85 kg 2 bags of 45 kg
DAP phosphate
53 kg 1 bag of 50 kg
MOP potash
40 kg 1 bag of 50 kg

Borax 10 kg/ha

Give the DAP and MOP at sowing, and the urea in two or three doses. If your soil card says a nutrient is low, add about a quarter more of it.

Watch out for

Draft: check with your KVK
  • Diamondback moth
    Pest

    Look for Small holes in the leaves; tiny green caterpillars wriggle when touched.

    First Grow mustard rows as a trap crop and use pheromone traps; spray Bt. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.

  • Black rot
    Disease

    Look for V-shaped yellow patches from the leaf edges with black veins.

    First Treat seed in hot water and rotate crops.

  • Aphids
    Pest

    Look for Clusters of small grey insects on the leaves and curds.

    First Spray only if clusters are thick; ask your KVK.

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
July, ₹3,090
Lowest
February, ₹1,175
₹1,175
₹3,090
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis.

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
8,881 ha
2003-04
Average yield
1.1 t/ha
2003-04

States that grow it

Latest state figures for fruits, vegetables, spices and plantation crops.

  1. West Bengal 20,01,765 t (2025-26)
  2. Madhya Pradesh 15,54,940 t (2025-26)
  3. Bihar 13,61,404 t (2025-26)
  4. Gujarat 8,31,353 t (2025-26)
  5. Odisha 7,44,878 t (2025-26)
  6. Punjab 6,05,946 t (2025-26)
  7. Haryana 6,02,235 t (2025-26)
  8. Uttar Pradesh 5,37,323 t (2025-26)
  9. Chhattisgarh 5,17,586 t (2025-26)
  10. Assam 4,65,978 t (2025-26)

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Districts with the most area (recent figures)

The map colours each district by yield, for districts growing it on at least 100 ha.

No recent district figures for this crop.

Across India over the years

Yield (t/ha)

1.1 1.1 1.1
2002-03 2003-04
Latest 1.1 t/ha in 2003-04

Area (ha)

7,831 8,356 8,881
2002-03 2003-04
Latest 8,881 ha in 2003-04

Only years in which most of the usual districts reported are shown.

Source: Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – UPAG (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2002-03 & 2003-04.