Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,800 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 230 mm it can use in a normal year, and 190 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 16–33 °C on average, and survives 7–39 °C.

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

• Jun 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 11 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 26 °C / 9 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 20 °C
• May 42 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 41 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Arecanut: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 5.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 6 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.

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (October–November 2026): about ₹35,513 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹29,654 a quintal, the middle of 57 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in August.

Typical costs are about ₹5.9 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.