Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,730 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 310 mm it can use in a normal year, and 180 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 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 34 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 23 °C
• May 38 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C

Soil

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

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

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.