Chrysanthemum

Water

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

Needs about 660 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 150 mm it can use in a normal year, and 90 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–25 °C on average, and survives 14–31 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 35 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in July get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 99 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.