Parwal (Pointed Gourd)

Water

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

Needs about 1,410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 600 mm it can use in a normal year, and 430 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 24–35 °C on average, and survives 14–36 °C.

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

• Jun 39 °C / 28 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 27 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
• May 42 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 39 °C / 28 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Parwal (Pointed Gourd): 10 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 41 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.