Kiwi

Water

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

Needs about 1,690 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 530 mm it can use in a normal year, and 460 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 21–30 °C on average, and survives 8–35 °C.

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

• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 18 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 21 °C.

Days in April get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Kiwi: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 11 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 4 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.