Marigold

Water

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

Needs about 530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year, and 20 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 35 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 34 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January 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, copper and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 48 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.