Cashew

Water

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

Needs about 1,450 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 520 mm it can use in a normal year, and 380 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 35 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C
• May 41 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Cashew: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: phosphorus.

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.
• Most fields here are short of iron.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 4.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 1.9 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 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 at last season's harvest (March–May 2026): about ₹14,855 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹11,475 a quintal, the middle of 6 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in October.

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.