Cardamom

Water

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

Needs about 1,800 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 620 mm it can use in a normal year, and 590 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 22–30 °C on average, and survives 10–35 °C.

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

• Jun 34 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 34 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 34 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Likes pH 5.5–6.0. We have no pH figures for this place.

Money

Yield: about 1.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 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 through the year (December 2025–May 2026, July–October 2026): about ₹2,56,375 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹1.7 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.