Parwal (Pointed Gourd)

Water

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

Needs about 1,480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 780 mm it can use in a normal year, and 730 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 37 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 29 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 25 °C
• May 41 °C / 28 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °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.

Likes pH 6.0–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 53 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.