Pecan Nut

Water

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

Needs about 1,400 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 740 mm it can use in a normal year, and 530 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–35 °C on average, and survives 5–40 °C.

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

• Jun 35 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 25 °C / 11 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 23 °C
• May 37 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 35 °C / 26 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 18 °C.

Soil

Soil for Pecan Nut: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 0.9 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 7 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.