Water Chestnut

Water

Rain falls about 16 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,280 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 360 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 25–30 °C on average, and survives 10–35 °C.

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

• Jun 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 34 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Water Chestnut: 7 out of 10 (okay).

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 5.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 15 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.