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
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Needs care: Cool in June
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,330 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,640 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,210 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 29 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 29 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
- Aug 29 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
- Sep 29 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
- Oct 29 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 27 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 26 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 30 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 31 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
- May 30 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 29 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Date Palm: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.
- Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
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.
No mandi or support price for this crop yet.