Cashew

Water

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

Needs about 1,420 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 430 mm it can use in a normal year, and 330 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 / 26 °C
• Jul 34 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 21 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 35 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 38 °C / 24 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 27 °C
• May 40 °C / 28 °C
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C

Soil

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

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 4.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 2.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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 ₹10,750 a quintal, the middle of 5 mandis in your state (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.