Date Palm

Water

Rain falls about 9 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 870 mm it can use in a normal year, and 740 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 / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 28 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 28 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 26 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 18 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 31 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• May 33 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 31 °C / 21 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Date Palm: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: organic carbon.

• The pH here suits it.
• 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.

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.