Cocoa

Water

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

Needs about 1,720 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 930 mm it can use in a normal year, and 770 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 21–32 °C on average, and survives 10–38 °C.

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

• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 24 °C
• May 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Cocoa: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of manganese.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.0–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 1.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

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.