Clove

Water

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

Needs about 1,820 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 420 mm it can use in a normal year, and 240 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 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 24 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 33 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 22 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 21 °C
• Feb 35 °C / 22 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• May 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• Soil here is often too alkaline for it.
• Many fields here are short of sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 4.0–5.6.

Money

Yield: about 3.6 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.