Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,510 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 850 mm it can use in a normal year, and 790 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 16–33 °C on average, and survives 7–39 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 21 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 22 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 24 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 25 °C
• May 33 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Arecanut: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 8.8 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

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 ₹41,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹41,400 a quintal, the middle of 4 mandis in your district (latest 12 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.