Strawberry

Water

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

Needs about 480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 60 mm it can use in a normal year (40 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 10 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 32 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 32 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 35 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 38 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in February 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.

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.