Bael

Water

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

Needs about 1,370 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 150 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 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 41 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 36 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 36 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 38 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 34 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 29 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 27 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 37 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 41 °C / 22 °C
• May 43 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 41 °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, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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.