Marigold

Water

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

Needs about 470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 170 mm it can use in a normal year, and 100 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–27 °C on average, and survives 11–34 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Sep 27 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 23 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Marigold: 5 out of 10 (poor).

Not in the score: organic carbon.

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of potassium.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 49 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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.