Skip to what you came for
Agriculture Novel Kharif the monsoon crop
Spice · Rabi

Cumin

Sown Nov–Dec · 100–120 days to harvest · 12 guides in our archive

September

Not the month for cumin.

Its window is Nov–Dec. That opens in November, 2 months from now.

What can go in this month, from the same spice group — soonest to crop first

At a glance

The nine numbers you plan with

Season Rabi
Sowing Nov–Dec
Duration 100–120
Spacing 30 × 10 cm
Soil pH 6.8–8.3
Water 250–350 mm
Temperature 15–25 °C
Seed rate 12–15 kg
Yield 0.6–0.8 t
Watch for Wilt, blight, aphid

Planning ranges for Indian conditions. Varieties, region and management shift every one of these — confirm with your KVK or state agricultural university before committing an acre.

From the archive

Growing Cumin

All results →
Nearby

Other spice crops

Full domain Plantation & Spice Crops 126
From growers

Nobody has reported a Cumin harvest here yet. It takes 5 before an average means anything — yours would be the first.

Work with Cumin

Compare Cumin with

Report your Cumin harvest

What did you actually get? Four numbers is enough. Everything on this site says what a crop should do — this is the only place it can say what it did.

Conditions you measured (optional)

Reviewed before it appears. Nothing identifying is stored — no name, no email, no precise location. Only the numbers, and only ever shown as an average across five growers or more.

Agriculture Novel is a knowledge base, not an advisory service. Where a page runs a model it shows the method and the inputs; where it quotes the crop reference, those are planning ranges whose sources are listed — and counted — on the sources page. A number that fits a package of practices still has to fit your field: check it against your own soil test and your local agriculture officer before you spend money on it. © 2026 Agriculture Novel · Kharif · 24,425 guides published