Date Palm

Water

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

Needs about 1,740 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 510 mm it can use in a normal year, and 400 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 37 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 22 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 29 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 33 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 37 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C
• May 42 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 25 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, 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.