Curry Leaf

Water

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

Needs about 1,130 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 570 mm it can use in a normal year, and 390 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 36 °C / 26 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 22 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 38 °C / 22 °C
• May 38 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

• The pH here suits 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 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.