Strawberry

Water

Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 620 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 280 mm it can use in a normal year (160 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 20 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 11–24 °C on average, and survives 6–28 °C.

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

• Nov 11 °C / 1 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 6 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 3 °C / -6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 5 °C / -4 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 9 °C / -1 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• May 20 °C / 8 °C
• Jun 23 °C / 12 °C
• Jul 22 °C / 13 °C
• Aug 22 °C / 12 °C

Soil

Soil for Strawberry: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 23 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.