Pecan Nut
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- 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
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 1,600 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 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 40 °C / 28 °C
- Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
- Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
- Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 35 °C / 20 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 14 °C
- Dec 27 °C / 11 °C
- Jan 25 °C / 10 °C
- Feb 29 °C / 13 °C
- Mar 35 °C / 18 °C
- Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
- May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
- Jun 40 °C / 28 °C
It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 17 °C.
Soil
Soil for Pecan Nut: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of zinc, 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.
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.