Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 870 mm it can use in a normal year, and 780 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 32 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 24 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 24 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 26 °C / 12 °C
• Mar 30 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 31 °C / 19 °C
• May 32 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 32 °C / 24 °C

Soil

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

• 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 boron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 2.1 quintals an acre here (district figures).

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.