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: 6 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 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 950 mm it can use in a normal year, and 770 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 31 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 28 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 27 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
- May 31 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 31 °C / 21 °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: organic carbon, sulphur, manganese and boron.
- 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 79% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 79% of this yield.
No mandi or support price for this crop yet.