Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,680 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 350 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 37 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 9 °C
• Feb 28 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 23 °C
• May 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• 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.