Pecan Nut

Water

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

Needs about 1,530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 310 mm it can use in a normal year, and 260 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 / 28 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 10 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 9 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 23 °C
• May 41 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 39 °C / 28 °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).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, 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.