Cocoa

Water

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

Needs about 1,880 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 450 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 36 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 24 °C
• May 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

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.