Pecan Nut
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
No price yet to estimate income
- Needs care: Risky: 6 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Winters are too warm for it to fruit
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 970 mm it can use in a normal year, and 690 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 26 °C / 20 °C
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
- Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
- Sep 26 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 27 °C / 19 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 17 °C
- Jan 27 °C / 17 °C
- Feb 29 °C / 18 °C
- Mar 30 °C / 20 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 21 °C
- May 29 °C / 21 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 20 °C
It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 22 °C.
Soil
Soil for Pecan Nut: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen and sulphur.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
- Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–7.0.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.
On rain alone it gets about 76% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 76% of this yield.
No mandi or support price for this crop yet.