Parwal (Pointed Gourd)

Water

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

Needs about 1,510 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 300 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 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 25 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 44 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Soil for Parwal (Pointed Gourd): 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of nitrogen, which it needs a lot.

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.