Ber
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop. Priced from mandis across India.
₹1.1 lakh–₹1.7 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹47,000–₹1.0 lakh an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in September
- Not known: No soil data
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 960 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 920 mm it can use in a normal year, and 640 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 29 °C / 22 °C
- Jul 29 °C / 22 °C
- Aug 28 °C / 22 °C
- Sep 29 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 28 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 22 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 30 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- May 29 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 29 °C / 22 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Likes pH 5.5–7.5. We have no pH figures for this place.
Money
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–March 2026): about ₹3,127 a quintal across India's mandis.
- ₹1,180 2022
- ₹2,000 2023
- ₹2,230 2024
- ₹2,760 2025
Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.
Prices are usually best in November.
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.