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.
₹85,000–₹1.3 lakh
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 2
After typical costs: ₹22,000–₹64,000 an acre a year
- Needs care: Risky: 5 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,140 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 890 mm it can use in a normal year, and 670 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 / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
- Nov 29 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 33 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 39 °C / 24 °C
- May 39 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 37 °C / 26 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Ber: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it, though not most crops.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
- Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 44 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 2 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
On rain alone it gets about 78% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 78% of this yield.
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 ₹64,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of nitrogen Your soil is likely short of nitrogen.
Add about a quarter more urea than the usual dose, in two or three splits. A pulse crop in rotation also adds nitrogen.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.
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Short of boron Your soil is likely short of boron.
Mix 4 kg of borax per acre into the soil before sowing.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.