Cinnamon & Tejpata

Water

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

Needs about 1,950 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 90 mm it can use in a normal year, and 40 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 24–30 °C on average, and survives 18–36 °C.

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

• Jun 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 38 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 37 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 27 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 35 °C / 17 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Cinnamon & Tejpata: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 9.2 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.