Date Palm

Water

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

Needs about 1,460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 790 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 35 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 29 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 30 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 26 °C
• May 37 °C / 28 °C
• Jun 35 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Date Palm: 9 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.

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.