Bael
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Needs care: Cool in September
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,170 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 130 mm it can use in a normal year, and 70 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 / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 23 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 19 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 29 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- May 41 °C / 25 °C
- Jun 40 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Bael: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.