Passion Fruit
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,000 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 440 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 18–34 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
- Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
- Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
- Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
- Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 14 °C
- Jan 26 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 33 °C / 21 °C
- Apr 36 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
- May 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 34 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
Months in orange are outside its best range.
Soil
Soil for Passion Fruit: 9 out of 10 (good).
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 6.0–8.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 16 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 2 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
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.