Strawberry

Water

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

Needs about 360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 100 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 35 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 13 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 21 °C / 7 °C
• Feb 26 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 16 °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).

Not in the score: boron.

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

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.