Almond

Water

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

Needs about 1,210 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 700 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 11 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 23 °C
• May 40 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 18 °C.

Soil

Soil for Almond: 8 out of 10 (good).

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