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 your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Needs care: Risky: 8 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 8 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,220 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 820 mm it can use in a normal year, and 680 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 30 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 27 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 30 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 35 °C / 17 °C
- Apr 39 °C / 21 °C
- May 42 °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.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
- 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 48 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.
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (January–February 2026): about ₹2,725 a quintal across mandis in your state.
Prices are usually best in February.
Typical costs are about ₹71,000 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 iron Your soil is likely short of iron.
Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.
Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to add for this crop.