Strawberry

Water

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

Needs about 420 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year, and 0 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

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

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

• Oct 37 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 33 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 26 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 36 °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: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

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.