Wardha district: cotton country with a mandarin belt.

Facts, with their sources

Each fact names the public document it comes from and the year of its data. Where two official sources disagree, both are shown.

• Normal rainfall is 1056.9 mm, spread over 47 to 50 rainy days, and the district is dry outside the June to September monsoon. An older report gives 985 to 1100 mm, rising from north-west to south-east.Source: Central Ground Water Board, Aquifer Maps and Ground Water Management Plan, Wardha District (2021); Ground Water Information, Wardha (2013) · Date: 2021 and 2013
• Soils are black or dark brown (kali, morand, khardi, bardi), formed on Deccan Trap basalt.Source: Central Ground Water Board, Wardha District aquifer report · Date: 2021
• Cotton covered about 206,600 hectares, oilseeds 135,400 and pulses 85,600 in the land-use year 2013-14.Source: Central Ground Water Board, Wardha District aquifer report (areas given in sq km) · Date: 2021 (land use 2013-14)
• Nagpur mandarin covered 14,300 hectares and sweet orange 3,100 hectares in 2008-09.Source: ICAR-CRIDA, Agriculture Contingency Plan for Wardha District · Date: 2008-09
• ICAR-CCRI researchers chose Nagpur, Amravati and Wardha as the popular citrus belts of Vidarbha for their 2025 study.Source: Plant Archives 25(1), ICAR-CCRI authors · Date: 2025

Rain in Wardha in an average year

Wardha gets about 1085 mm of rain in an average year, 951 mm of it from June to September.

For comparison, the official normal in the Central Ground Water Board's report is 1056.9 mm a year. Source: Central Ground Water Board, Aquifer Maps and Ground Water Management Plan, Wardha District · 2021

Source: CHIRPS v2.0 rainfall (Climate Hazards Center, UC Santa Barbara; Funk et al. 2015), averaged over the area by VarshaKrishi. It is a satellite-and-rain-gauge estimate, so it differs from official normals, which use other years and stations.