Curry Leaf

Water

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

Needs about 1,290 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 550 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 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 38 °C / 27 °C
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 16 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 32 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 36 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 23 °C
• May 42 °C / 27 °C
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °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.

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.