Date Palm
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
No price yet to estimate income
- Needs care: Risky: 7 irrigations short
- Needs care: Frost risk in December
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,110 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 660 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 29 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 26 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 25 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 25 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 23 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 11 °C / 2 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 14 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- May 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 29 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Date Palm: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: sulphur, zinc, iron and 3 more.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.5–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 31 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 5 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
On rain alone it gets about 73% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 73% of this yield.
No mandi or support price for this crop yet.