Ber
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Sold at 2 mandis in your district.
₹2.1 lakh–₹3.1 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹1.4 lakh–₹2.4 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in October
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,000 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 910 mm it can use in a normal year, and 810 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 25–42 °C on average, and survives 7–50 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 37 °C / 26 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 29 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 33 °C / 19 °C
- May 37 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 37 °C / 26 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Ber: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 45 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 2 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹5,750 a quintal at mandis in your district.
Prices are usually best in December.
Typical costs are about ₹66,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.