Mesta

Water

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

Needs about 610 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 100 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 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 35 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 33 °C / 18 °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: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

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.