Date Palm

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,620 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 900 mm it can use in a normal year, and 730 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 / 26 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 35 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 24 °C
• May 41 °C / 28 °C
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Date Palm: 8 out of 10 (good).

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• 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.