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
- Needs care: Risky: 10 irrigations short
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 10 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,240 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 750 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 38 °C / 27 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 31 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
- May 43 °C / 28 °C
- Jun 38 °C / 27 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Ber: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: boron.
- 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 iron.
Likes pH 5.5–7.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 67 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–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 ₹98,000 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 zinc Your soil is likely short of zinc.
Mix 10 kg of zinc sulphate per acre into the soil before sowing. One dose lasts two or three seasons.
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.