Cauliflower
Sow in June, harvest around September
This season's sowing time (June–July) is over.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹3.0 lakh–₹4.5 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.6 lakh–₹3.1 lakh an acre a season
- Needs care: Risky: 2 irrigations short
- Needs care: Warm in June
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 2 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 gives about 400 mm it can use in a normal year, and 320 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 10–25 °C on average, and survives 5–30 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 35 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 32 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 31 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 30 °C / 19 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Cauliflower: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 6.0–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 91 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
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 (September–October 2026): about ₹4,875 a quintal at mandis in your district.
- ₹2,430 2021
- ₹2,750 2022
- ₹2,250 2023
- ₹3,750 2024
- ₹3,500 2025
Prices are usually best in July.
Typical costs are about ₹1.5 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.