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 700 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 27 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 20 °C
• Sep 26 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 30 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 32 °C / 21 °C
• May 31 °C / 21 °C
• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C

Soil

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

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 5.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

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 ₹33,126 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹27,391 a quintal, the middle of 38 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in December.

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.