Curry Leaf

Water

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

Needs about 1,270 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 240 mm it can use in a normal year, and 160 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 27–41 °C on average, and survives 8–47 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C
• Jul 36 °C / 27 °C
• Aug 34 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 35 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 27 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 8 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 34 °C / 17 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C
• May 42 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 41 °C / 29 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Curry Leaf: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• 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 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 72 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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.