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 620 mm it can use in a normal year, and 580 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 28 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 26 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 26 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 32 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 22 °C
• May 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 28 °C / 22 °C

Soil

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

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• 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 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 ₹38,470 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹35,694 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your district (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in February.

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.