Kiwi

Water

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

Needs about 1,520 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 310 mm it can use in a normal year, and 190 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 33 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 20 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 18 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 18 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 19 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 33 °C / 24 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 18 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 24 °C.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• 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 6.0–7.0.

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.