Kiwi
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Doesn't suit: Winters are too warm for it to fruit
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,590 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 390 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 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 21 °C
- Nov 32 °C / 16 °C
- Dec 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 27 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 31 °C / 14 °C
- Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
- May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 38 °C / 27 °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 19 °C.
Days in May 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 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.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.