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What happens next?

The year ahead, starting from where you are standing.

These are windows, not forecasts. A window is the month range the crop table gives, and it does not move. A forecast would be a claim about the weather, and this site has no weather feed, so it does not make one. Read a window as “this is possible then”, never as “this will work then”.

The year, as the reference states it

Height is the number of crops whose sowing window covers that month; the peak is 315 in July. The line is today.

Sowing-window density across the twelve months, with a marker on today in September. The figures are in the table under “The same reading, as figures” on this page.
  1. Jan 57
  2. Feb 86
  3. Mar 66
  4. Apr 41
  5. May 38
  6. Jun 285
  7. Jul 315
  8. Aug 68
  9. Sep 104
  10. Oct 160
  11. Nov 102
  12. Dec 37
Immediate

What moves inside the next thirty days.

10 close this month

10 crops leave their sowing window in 0 days.

Including Horse Gram, Oil Palm, Amaranth (Leafy), Litchi.

Why am I seeing this?
  1. Input Rows whose window includes September and excludes October.
  2. Method Set difference between two month memberships. Year-round rows are excluded, because a crop that is always sowable is never closing and would otherwise dominate the list.
  3. Not claimed This is the reference window, not your weather. A late monsoon moves it and the platform will not know.
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66 open next month

66 more open in October.

Including Maize, Oats, Grain Amaranth, Chickpea (Gram). Decide before the window, not inside it.

Why am I seeing this?
  1. Input Rows whose window includes October and excludes September.
  2. Method The same month-set membership, run one month forward. Nothing is extrapolated; the window is stated in the table.
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Twelve months

Each month, what opens and what shuts.

A crop opens in the first month of its window and closes in the last. Crops you can sow all year are counted as open but never as opening or closing — they have no deadline, so there is nothing to decide.

  1. September now 104 sowable +76 open −10 close

    Opens this month 76

    and 52 more

    Last month to sow 10

  2. October 160 sowable +66 open −66 close

    Opens this month 66

    and 42 more

    Last month to sow 66

    and 42 more

  3. November 102 sowable +8 open −75 close

    Opens this month 8

    Last month to sow 75

    and 51 more

  4. December 37 sowable +10 open −6 close

    Opens this month 10

    Last month to sow 6

  5. January 57 sowable +26 open −11 close

    Opens this month 26

    and 2 more

    Last month to sow 11

  6. February 86 sowable +40 open −31 close

    Opens this month 40

    and 16 more

    Last month to sow 31

    and 7 more

  7. March 66 sowable +11 open −36 close

    Opens this month 11

    Last month to sow 36

    and 12 more

  8. April 41 sowable +11 open −10 close

    Opens this month 11

    Last month to sow 10

  9. May 38 sowable +7 open −11 close

    Opens this month 7

    Last month to sow 11

  10. June 285 sowable +258 open −12 close

    Opens this month 258

    and 234 more

    Last month to sow 12

  11. July 315 sowable +42 open −252 close

    Opens this month 42

    and 18 more

    Last month to sow 252

    and 228 more

  12. August 68 sowable +5 open −40 close

    Opens this month 5

    Last month to sow 40

    and 16 more

What this page is not

Three things nobody should read into it.

  • Not local. These are rough planning ranges for Indian conditions. Your district, your height above sea level and your irrigation all shift them, and this site knows none of the three.
  • Not weather. A late monsoon moves all of these, and this page will carry on showing the table’s month. Use a window to start a decision, not to make it.
  • Not evenly evidenced. 538 of 538 rows here have no written guide behind them. They are still in the table, and the crop page will tell you when you are looking at one.

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