Cinnamon & Tejpata

Water

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

Needs about 1,720 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 980 mm it can use in a normal year, and 840 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 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 31 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 31 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 28 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 42 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °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).

Not in the score: pH and sulphur.

• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5. We have no pH figures for this place.

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.