Marigold

Water

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

Needs about 560 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 110 mm it can use in a normal year, and 70 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):

• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 10 °C
• Dec 21 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of potassium.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

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.