Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,550 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 700 mm it can use in a normal year, and 650 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 34 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 19 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 25 °C
• May 36 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 34 °C / 26 °C

Soil

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

• 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.
• Most fields here are short of phosphorus.

Likes pH 5.5–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 9.0 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.