Kiwi

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 240 mm it can use in a normal year, and 150 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 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C
• May 41 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm 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.