Mesta

Water

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

Needs about 660 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 90 mm it can use in a normal year, and 60 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–28 °C on average, and survives 10–35 °C.

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

• Jun 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 38 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 35 °C / 19 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, potassium and boron.

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 6.0 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.