Strawberry

Water

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

Needs about 490 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 10 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 140 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 34 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 33 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 31 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 13 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 37 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in October get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–6.8.

Money

Yield: about 16 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.