Arecanut

Water

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

Needs about 1,720 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 640 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 37 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 35 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 35 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 21 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 23 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 26 °C
• May 37 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °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 iron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 7.3 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 ₹35,513 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹30,827 a quintal, the middle of 60 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in August.

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.