When to sow Onion in Assam

A winter crop in Assam: sow in Dec, harvest in Apr. Assam is number 16 of the 31 states that grow it.

Season here
Rabi
JJASONDJFMAM

Sowing Growing Harvest

Yield in Assam
56 quintals an acre
India: 62 quintals an acre
Mandi price here
₹5,350 a quintal
The middle price at 7 mandis, as of 13 Nov.
Every mandi's price →
Grown here on
21,162 acres
under 1% of India's onion

When to sow and harvest in Assam

Rabi
Kharif
Today: kharif harvest
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Before you sow

Sown it? Follow it week by week

Each watering, each dose of urea for your acres, and the pest to look for now.

Will it grow on your land?

Check it against your village's soil, rain and water.

How to grow onion

Fertiliser for one acre, pests, and what an acre can earn.

Where in Assam it grows most

  1. 1 Barpeta 74 quintals an acre 15% 3,131 acres
  2. 2 Darrang 76 quintals an acre 7% 1,539 acres
  3. 3 Kamrup 54 quintals an acre 7% 1,490 acres
  4. 4 Nagaon 57 quintals an acre 7% 1,389 acres
  5. 5 Goalpara 44 quintals an acre 5% 1,139 acres
  6. 6 Sonitpur 50 quintals an acre 5% 1,082 acres
  7. 7 Dhubri 76 quintals an acre 5% 1,037 acres
  8. 8 Kokrajhar 15 quintals an acre 4% 940 acres

Onion in other states

Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh Karnataka Gujarat Rajasthan Bihar Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Odisha Chhattisgarh

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare); Crop area, production & yield – district-wise (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare). 2025-26.