Cauliflower
Sow in November, harvest around March
Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹2.0 lakh–₹3.1 lakh
per acre a season, before costs
After typical costs: ₹1.2 lakh–₹2.2 lakh an acre a season
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
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 160 mm it can use in a normal year (70 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 100 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 22 °C / 8 °C
- Dec 17 °C / 5 °C
- Jan 15 °C / 3 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 17 °C / 6 °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).
Mandi price at last season's harvest (April 2026): about ₹2,800 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 ₹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.