Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,650 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 380 mm it can use in a normal year, and 270 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 30 °C / 21 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 20 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 22 °C
• May 34 °C / 22 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 21 °C

Soil

Soil for Arecanut: 5 out of 10 (poor).

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

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 ₹25,766 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹25,000 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your district (latest 11 Nov).

Prices are usually best in January.

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.