Date Palm

Water

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

Needs about 1,710 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 350 mm it can use in a normal year, and 210 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 26–45 °C on average, and survives 10–52 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 35 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 24 °C
• May 42 °C / 28 °C
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Date Palm: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 54 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 5 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.