Cabbage
A winter crop. Sow in Sep–Nov, harvest in Dec–Feb.
Sowing Growing Harvest
When to sow and harvest
Sowing Growing Harvest
Will it grow on your land?
Pick your place and water to see:
- Whether Cabbage suits your land Good fit, possible or won't work, with the reasons.
- What it could earn an acre From yields near you and mandi prices.
- Water and fertiliser it needs Irrigations for your water, and bags for one acre.
What it needs
Temperature
Survives 7–32 °C.
Water
The check above works out its water need on your land.
Soil pH
Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 5 to 8.3.
Soil
- No salty soil
- Needs rich soil
- N Needs plenty of nitrogen, potassium and boron
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°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.
Fertiliser for one acre
Draft: check with your Krishi Vigyan KendraFor most fields
Borax: 4 kg for one acre
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 Krishi Vigyan Kendra-
Diamondback mothPest
Look for
Small holes in the leaves; tiny green caterpillars wriggle when touched.
What to do first
Grow mustard rows as a trap crop and use pheromone traps; spray Bt. Follow the label or your KVK for the dose.
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Black rotDisease
Look for
V-shaped yellow patches from the leaf edges with black veins.
What to do first
Treat seed in hot water and rotate crops.
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AphidsPest
Look for
Clusters of small grey insects on the leaves.
What to do first
Spray only if clusters are thick; ask your KVK.
What an acre earns
At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.
Left an acre, a season
₹54,100
- Yield India's average
- 96.9 quintals an acre
- × Price harvest price last season (Dec 2025–Feb 2026)
- ₹1,150 a quintal
- = Income
- ₹1,11,400
- − Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
- −₹57,300
- = Left
- ₹54,100
A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹89,200 to ₹1,33,700 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.
Work it out for your landMandi price, month by month
Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–Nov 2026).
Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).
Where it grows in India
- Area grown in India
- 11.0 lakh acres
- 2025-26
- Average yield
- 96.9 quintals an acre (23.9 tonnes a hectare)
- 2025-26
- Most area
- West Bengal
- 19% of India's
States that grow it
Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.
Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).
Where it grows most
The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.
No recent district figures for this crop.