Cocoa

Water

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

Needs about 1,720 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 660 mm it can use in a normal year, and 520 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 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 26 °C
• May 38 °C / 28 °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.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 1.1 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.