Cinnamon & Tejpata

Water

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

Needs about 1,770 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 590 mm it can use in a normal year, and 440 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 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 34 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 26 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 43 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Soil for Cinnamon & Tejpata: 8 out of 10 (good).

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

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.