Date Palm

Water

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

Needs about 1,680 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 330 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 38 °C / 28 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 31 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 34 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 24 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 26 °C
• May 40 °C / 29 °C
• Jun 38 °C / 28 °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.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.5–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 41 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.