Arecanut

Water

Rain falls about 9 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,250 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 840 mm it can use in a normal year, and 750 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 25 °C / 18 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 18 °C
• Oct 24 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 22 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 20 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 25 °C / 13 °C
• Apr 27 °C / 16 °C
• May 26 °C / 17 °C
• Jun 25 °C / 18 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 6.3 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.