Cocoa

Water

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

Needs about 1,550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 910 mm it can use in a normal year, and 780 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 32 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 31 °C / 19 °C
• May 32 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 32 °C / 24 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

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

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.