Sannhemp

Water

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

Needs about 350 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 50 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 4–40 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Oct 32 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Sannhemp: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 12 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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.