Kiwi

Water

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

Needs about 1,320 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 680 mm it can use in a normal year, and 510 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 32 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 25 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 23 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 25 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
• May 33 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 32 °C / 25 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 18 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 27 °C.

Soil

Soil for Kiwi: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, 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 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.