Pecan Nut

Water

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

Needs about 1,490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 600 mm it can use in a normal year, and 470 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 39 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 23 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C
• May 41 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 39 °C / 27 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 16 °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.