Bael

Water

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

Needs about 1,140 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 120 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 30–42 °C on average, and survives 5–49 °C.

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

• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 33 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 35 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• May 40 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 6.0–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 28 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 5 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.