Cinnamon & Tejpata

Water

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

Needs about 1,480 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 780 mm it can use in a normal year, and 660 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 31 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 28 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 26 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 25 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 21 °C
• May 34 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 23 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

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

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.