Ber

Planted once, harvested year after year.

Check it on your land
Season
Whole year
100% of its area.
Grows best at
25–42 °C
0 °C survives 7–50 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Planted once, usually at the start of the rains. It stays for years: the first real harvest comes after about 2 years, then one every year.

Will it grow on your land?

Erode Tamil Nadu
Water
Season

Won't work: too dry without irrigation

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.

Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on

  • Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 280 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 34 °C / 24 °C
  • Jul 33 °C / 23 °C
  • Aug 33 °C / 24 °C
  • Sep 33 °C / 23 °C
  • Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
  • Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
  • Dec 30 °C / 20 °C
  • Jan 32 °C / 20 °C
  • Feb 34 °C / 21 °C
  • Mar 36 °C / 23 °C
  • Apr 37 °C / 25 °C
  • May 36 °C / 25 °C
  • Jun 34 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Ber: 8 out of 10 (good).

  • The pH here suits it.
  • Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
  • Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
  • Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

How the soil score works

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.

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–March 2026): about ₹3,127 a quintal across India's mandis.

Average mandi price each year (₹ a quintal):
  1. ₹1,180 2022
  2. ₹2,000 2023
  3. ₹2,230 2024
  4. ₹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.

How to make it work

  • 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.

    About 100% of local fields of this crop get it.

  • Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.

    Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.

    Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.

  • Short of sulphur Your soil is likely short of sulphur.

    Use single super phosphate instead of DAP, or add about 100 kg of gypsum per acre before sowing.

    Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.

  • Short of iron Your soil is likely short of iron.

    Spray ferrous sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, when young leaves turn yellow.

    Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.

  • Short of manganese Your soil is likely short of manganese.

    Spray manganese sulphate, 5 g per litre of water, on the young crop.

    Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.

What local farmers put on it (share of fields):

  • Urea 100%
See every crop that suits Erode

What it needs

Temperature

25–42 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 7–50 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 5 to 8.5.

Soil

  • Takes a little salt
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

What an acre earns

At India's average yield and a recent price, named below. Your land, water and mandi will differ.

Left an acre, a year, once it bears

₹74,900

Yield India's average
45.0 quintals an acre
× Price harvest price last season (Jan–Mar 2026)
₹3,127 a quintal
= Income
₹1,40,700
− Costs about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys
−₹65,800
= Left
₹74,900

A good year or field earns about a fifth more, a poor one a fifth less: ₹1,12,500 to ₹1,68,800 income an acre. Costs stay the same either way.

It bears from about year 2: nothing to sell before.

Work it out for your land

Mandi price, month by month

Best month
November, ₹5,525 a quintal
Lowest
September, ₹1,600 a quintal
₹1,600
₹5,525
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rupees a quintal, typical across India's mandis: each month's latest price (Dec 2025–May 2026, Sep–Nov 2026).

Latest prices near Erode Today's price across India

Source: Agmarknet daily prices and arrivals (India Data Portal).

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
1.3 lakh acres
2025-26
Average yield
45.0 quintals an acre (11.1 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Madhya Pradesh
27% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.