Cashew

Water

Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.

Needs about 1,060 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,080 mm it can use in a normal year, and 880 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–35 °C on average, and survives 5–46 °C.

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

• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 28 °C / 17 °C
• Nov 24 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 19 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 17 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 21 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 26 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 31 °C / 19 °C
• May 36 °C / 24 °C
• Jun 36 °C / 25 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Cashew: 10 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 4.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 3.2 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.

Mandi price at last season's harvest (March–May 2026): about ₹14,855 a quintal across India's mandis.

This week: about ₹11,475 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹12,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in February.

Typical costs are about ₹25,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2024–2026), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.