Ber

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 970 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 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 26 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 25 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 26 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 30 °C / 21 °C
• May 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Ber: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and sulphur.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

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.

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.