Clove

Water

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

Needs about 1,790 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 270 mm it can use in a normal year, and 170 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 / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 26 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 22 °C
• May 41 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 40 °C / 28 °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 Clove: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• 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 organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

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.