₹23,000–₹34,000
per acre a year, before costs
once bearing, from about year 3
At typical costs, from a loss of ₹2,000 to a profit of ₹9,000 an acre a year
- Suits: Rain is enough
- Suits: Ideal temperatures
- Suits: Soil 10/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain is enough in a normal year. Keep one irrigation ready for a dry year.
Needs about 1,110 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,020 mm it can use in a normal year, and 860 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 26 °C / 19 °C
- Jul 24 °C / 19 °C
- Aug 24 °C / 19 °C
- Sep 25 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 26 °C / 19 °C
- Nov 26 °C / 18 °C
- Dec 26 °C / 16 °C
- Jan 27 °C / 16 °C
- Feb 29 °C / 17 °C
- Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
- Apr 30 °C / 20 °C
- May 30 °C / 20 °C
- Jun 26 °C / 19 °C
Soil
Soil for Cashew: 10 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen.
- The pH here suits it.
Likes pH 4.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
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.
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). At that price an acre would lose about ₹3,000 a year at typical costs.
- ₹8,410 2021
- ₹9,250 2023
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.
How to make it work
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 19%