Pecan Nut

Water

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

Needs about 1,460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 440 mm it can use in a normal year, and 300 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 38 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 9 °C
• Jan 22 °C / 8 °C
• Feb 26 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 22 °C
• May 40 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 15 °C.

Soil

Soil for Pecan Nut: 7 out of 10 (okay).

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

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.