Almond

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 280 mm it can use in a normal year, and 190 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 12–35 °C on average, and survives 10–40 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 30 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 41 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 14 °C.

Soil

Soil for Almond: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 6.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 4 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.