Kiwi

Water

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

Needs about 1,550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 890 mm it can use in a normal year, and 760 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 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 39 °C / 28 °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 May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

Not in the score: sulphur.

• 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 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.