Cocoa

Water

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

Needs about 1,810 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 290 mm it can use in a normal year, and 190 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 21–32 °C on average, and survives 10–38 °C.

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

• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Cocoa: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: boron.

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

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 1.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 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.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.