Strawberry

A winter crop. Sow in Oct–Nov, harvest in Mar–Apr.

Check it on your land
Season
Rabi
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Sowing Growing Harvest

Ready in
150 days
about 5 months
Grows best at
11–24 °C
0 °C survives 6–28 °C 40 °C

When to sow and harvest

Rabi
Today: rabi sowing time
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Sow Growing Harvest
The year starts in June, with the monsoon. Your district can shift a few weeks.

Sowing Growing Harvest

Will it grow on your land?

Sirmaur Himachal Pradesh
Water
Season

Good fit in Sirmaur

Strawberry

JJASONDJFMAM

Sow in October, harvest around March

Still sowing time: sow by the end of November.

No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.

No price yet to estimate income

  • Suits: Rain is enough
  • Suits: Ideal temperatures
  • Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 70 mm it can use in a normal year (30 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 200 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):

  • Oct 25 °C / 14 °C
  • Nov 21 °C / 9 °C
  • Dec 17 °C / 6 °C
  • Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
  • Feb 18 °C / 7 °C
  • Mar 23 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: organic carbon, sulphur, manganese and boron.

  • The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 6.0–6.8.

How the soil score works

Money

Yield: about 23 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.

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What it needs

Temperature

11–24 °C
0 °C40 °C

Survives 6–28 °C.

Water

The check above works out its water need on your land.

Soil pH

4 acidic7 neutral9 alkaline

Likes neutral soil. Grows from pH 4.5 to 8.2.

Soil

  • No salty soil
  • Ordinary farm soil is fine
  • K Needs plenty of potassium, zinc and boron
How the soil score works

Source: FAO ECOCROP crop requirements (via OpenCLIM/ecocrop); FAO-56 crop coefficients (Allen et al. 1998); IMD gridded daily rainfall (0.25°); IMD gridded daily max/min temperature (1°); TerraClimate 1991–2020 temperature normals (about 4 km), where each district's villages are.

Fertiliser for one acre

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra for the dose.

Watch out for

Not covered yet. Ask your Krishi Vigyan Kendra what to watch for.

Mandi price, month by month

No mandi prices for this crop yet.

Where it grows in India

Area grown in India
10,433 acres
2025-26
Average yield
22.9 quintals an acre (5.6 tonnes a hectare)
2025-26
Most area
Maharashtra
52% of India's

States that grow it

Each state's share of India's production, in its latest year with figures (2025-26). Tap a state to open it.

Source: Horticulture area & production statistics (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare).

Where it grows most

The districts with the most area in recent years. The map colours every district growing it on at least 100 ha by yield; the numbers mark these districts.

No recent district figures for this crop.