Date Palm

Water

Rain falls about 4 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,070 mm it can use in a normal year, and 700 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 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 26 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 23 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 28 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• May 28 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Date Palm: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: organic carbon.

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• It copes with the salt here.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.5–8.0.

Money

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 86% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 86% of this yield.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.