Date Palm

Water

Rain falls about 10 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 / 23 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 26 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 27 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 28 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 26 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 32 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 34 °C / 21 °C
• May 34 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 23 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often too acidic for it.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

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.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.