Cocoa
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
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 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,650 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 600 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 34 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 23 °C
- Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
- Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 32 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 37 °C / 22 °C
- May 38 °C / 25 °C
- Jun 34 °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, though not most crops.
Likes pH 5.0–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.