Date Palm

Water

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

Needs about 1,570 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 570 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 / 26 °C
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 30 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 22 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 26 °C
• May 37 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: organic carbon, sulphur and boron.

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