Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 690 mm it can use in a normal year, and 620 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 / 26 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 27 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 19 °C
• May 37 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Soil for Arecanut: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.

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.