Cocoa

Water

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

Needs about 1,870 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 700 mm it can use in a normal year, and 450 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 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 30 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
• May 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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.