Cocoa

Water

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

Needs about 1,950 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 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 35 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
• May 41 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: phosphorus.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.
• Most fields here are short of iron.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 1.2 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.