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 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 320 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 / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Soil for Kiwi: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

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