Clove
Holds the land all year
No figures for your district: its government crop records list no area or yield for this crop.
No price yet to estimate income
- Needs care: Risky: 7 irrigations short
- Doesn't suit: Too cold in january
- Needs care: Soil 7/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Rain falls about 7 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.
Needs about 1,260 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 950 mm it can use in a normal year, and 770 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 20–35 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Jun 31 °C / 21 °C
- Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
- Aug 27 °C / 20 °C
- Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
- Oct 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
- Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 15 °C / 4 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 18 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 23 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
- Apr 28 °C / 16 °C
- May 31 °C / 19 °C
- Jun 31 °C / 21 °C
Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.
Soil
Soil for Clove: 7 out of 10 (okay).
Not in the score: organic carbon, sulphur, manganese and boron.
- Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
Likes pH 4.0–5.6.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 2.5 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).
A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 7 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.
On rain alone it gets about 75% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 75% of this yield.
No mandi or support price for this crop yet.