Cashew

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,160 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 1,990 mm it can use in a normal year, and 1,620 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 24 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 23 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 24 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 26 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 26 °C
• May 33 °C / 26 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 24 °C

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.

Likes pH 4.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 1.2 quintals an acre here in this season (district figures).

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 ₹12,500 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 ₹11,000 a year at typical costs.

Prices are usually best in April.

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.