Walnut
Holds the land all year
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
- Doesn't suit: Winters are too warm for it to fruit
- Suits: Soil 9/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough, even in a dry year.
Needs about 1,360 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 2,300 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,640 mm in a dry year.
Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.
Temperature
Grows best at 15–30 °C on average, and survives 7–40 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 31 °C / 24 °C
- Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
- Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
- Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
- Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
- Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
- Dec 32 °C / 23 °C
- Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
- Feb 33 °C / 24 °C
- Mar 34 °C / 26 °C
- Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
- May 33 °C / 26 °C
- Jun 31 °C / 24 °C
It needs a cold winter to flower: a coldest month averaging 12 °C or less. Here the coldest month averages 27 °C.
Soil
Soil for Walnut: 9 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
- Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 14 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 6 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
No mandi or support price for this crop yet.