Cashew

Water

Rain falls about 12 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 860 mm it can use in a normal year, and 550 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 38 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 32 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 18 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 22 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 26 °C
• May 43 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and manganese.

• The pH here suits it.

Likes pH 4.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 1.6 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 India's mandis.

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

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.