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: 5 irrigations short
- Needs care: Frost risk in January
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 5 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,080 mm it can use in a normal year, and 880 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 36 °C / 25 °C
- Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
- Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
- Oct 28 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 21 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 26 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 31 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- May 36 °C / 24 °C
- Jun 36 °C / 25 °C
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Date Palm: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
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 83% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 83% of this yield.
No mandi or support price for this crop yet.