Clove

Water

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

Needs about 1,630 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 250 mm it can use in a normal year, and 200 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 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 21 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 18 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 28 °C / 13 °C
• Apr 35 °C / 18 °C
• May 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Clove: 5 out of 10 (poor).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

Likes pH 4.0–5.6.

Money

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.

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.