Dragon Fruit

Water

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

Needs about 630 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 350 mm it can use in a normal year, and 200 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–28 °C on average, and survives 12–34 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 17 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 19 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 37 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Dragon Fruit: 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 nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.3–6.7.

Money

Yield: about 15 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 2 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.