Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,410 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 710 mm it can use in a normal year, and 660 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 26 °C / 19 °C
• Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 24 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 25 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 27 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
• May 30 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 26 °C / 19 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.

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 ₹4,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹4,600 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in April.

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.