Pecan Nut

Water

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

Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 280 mm it can use in a normal year, and 220 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 40 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 35 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 29 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C
• May 41 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C

It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 13 °C.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• 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 organic carbon.

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.